Arctic Monkeys new album: The Car release date and tracklist

Arctic Monkeys have announced their seventh studio album titled The Car.

Taking to Instagram on Wednesday, the Sheffield band revealed that their new 10-track studio album will be available in just two months time, on October 21st. 

The unexpected announcement of their new album – four years after the release of their last album Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino – sent AM fans into meltdown.

Alongside some album artwork shared to Instagram, the band penned: ‘The new album from Arctic Monkeys, ‘The Car’ is out 21st October. Pre-order now.’   

The new album announcement sent their fans into complete meltdown, with one follower commenting: ‘SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP,’ while another added: ‘Meltdown mode.’ 

‘OH MY GOD IT’S HAPPENING!!’ enthused one fan, with someone else writing: ‘WE WEREN’T CLOWNING GUYS,’ as another simply added: ‘WHATTT’ 

One person gushed: ‘OH MY GOD IM SO HAPPY,’ while another admitted: ‘my will to live has extended all the way up to Oct 21s.’

‘Yes yes yes finally boysssssss,’ wrote someone else, with one fan stating: ‘THIS IS THE GREATEST THING TO HAPPEN EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.’ 

And speaking to The Big Issue, frontman Alex Turner, 36, revealed the record will bring the group ‘back to earth’ following the intergalactic sound of their last album.

He told the publication: ‘I think we’ve got closer to a better version of a more dynamic overall sound with this record.

‘The strings on this record come in and out of focus and that was a deliberate move and hopefully everything has its own space. There’s time the band comes to the front and then the strings come to the front.’

The upcoming album was made with group’s longtime producer James Ford and was recorded in Butley Priory, a converted monastery in rural Suffolk.

Alex – who stars in the band alongside  Jamie Cook, Nick O’Malley and Matt Helders – explained that the decision to snub a typical recording studio was inspired by legends of rock-and-roll.

The musician said: ‘There’s a bunch of Led Zeppelin and Stones records where they were in this house in the country and then they went and sorted it all out and overdubbed it elsewhere.

‘We went there in the summer, took all the equipment, got the raw material and then took it on elsewhere.’

The release of The Car comes 20 years after Arctic Monkeys were formed in Sheffield and Alex admitted he wants the group to stay true to their roots.

He said: ‘You have to follow your instincts in the same way you did in the first place. In that way, it does all feel like it’s connected to us 20 years ago in the garage when it was pure instinct.’

The announcement comes after the band debuted one new track – titled I Ain’t Quite Where I Think I Am – from their upcoming album, during their show at Zurich Openair festival in Switzerland on Tuesday.