Arctic Monkeys have started work on the follow-up to 2013’s AM. Bassist Nick O’Malley let the news slip in a new interview with the motorcycling magazine For the Ride, revealing that the band started recording the album earlier this month. He also said they’re going to release the album sometime in 2018. “If it isn’t [out by then], we’ve got problems,” O’Malley said. Alex Turner stayed busy last year with the Last Shadow Puppets, who released their new album Everything You’ve Come to Expect.

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