• ' Released: 27 February 2012 • ' Released: 19 June 2013 • ' Released: 11 August 2013 • ' Released: 9 December 2013 • ' Released: 28 January 2014 (radio) • ' Released: 9 June 2014 (radio) AM is the fifth studio album by English band. It was produced by and co-produced by at Sage & Sound Recording in Los Angeles and in, and released in September 2013 through. Klipart masha i medvedj.

Arctic Monkeys ‎– AM Label: Domino ‎– WIG317D1. MP3 version of the album, download available with voucher included in the vinyl release. Also available in. Thanks for the upload, But. There is something wrong with these files. Every time they get to a certain time on each song it just randomly skips to the next song for no reason at all.

The album was promoted by the singles ', ', ', ', ', and '. It features guest appearances by,,. The album received critical acclaim from music critics and featured in many year-end lists as one of the best of 2013. It was nominated for the 2013 for best album, hailed the Best Album of 2013 by magazine, and featured at number 449 on NME 's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Commercially, AM has become one of Arctic Monkeys' most successful albums to date, topping charts in several countries, and reaching top ten positions in many more. In the United Kingdom, Arctic Monkeys broke a record with AM, becoming the first band to debut at number one in the UK with their first five albums.

The album is also considered the band's breakthrough in America. The single ' was the first song by the band to enter the. AM is also one of the UK's best-selling vinyl albums of the decade, selling 73,000 units. AM has sold 3,500,000 copies worldwide. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Production [ ] Title [ ] In an interview with on, Arctic Monkeys frontman said that the album title was inspired by the 's 1985 compilation album: 'I actually stole it from the Velvet Underground, I'll just confess that now and get it out of the way. The 'VU' record, obviously.'

He went on to say: 'Did we cop out? Summat about it feels like this record is exactly where we should be right now. So it felt right to just initial it.' Turner later revealed that the band had nearly titled the album The New Black, after a they used in the recording process: 'I got this old thing that we recorded a lot through. There's no knobs, just two holes. And this little black amp that became known as The New Black.

Crossed me mind to call the album that.' Josh Homme contribution [ ]. Provided background vocals to two songs on AM. Speaking about 's contribution to AM with Zane Lowe, Turner said: 'The Josh thing was very much a case of one of us returning a back scratch to the other', referring to his appearance as a on the album earlier in 2013. Turner continued: 'He came down and sort of got us out of a little rut. It's just fun, it's friends, extended family now – [they] came round, had a fun night.

His contribution to our record is really exciting, it's probably my favourite. The 30 seconds that he's in there is just, I dunno, it's like something that I've never heard before.

Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but you know what I'm saying.' In an interview with, Turner mentioned that Homme would appear in the song 'Knee Socks'.

On 4 July 2013, Homme mentioned AM at the festival in the: 'I sang on the new Arctic Monkeys record. It's a really cool, sexy after-midnight record. It's called AM, so I guess that's really obvious. And it's really good. It's really good. It's not disco [as such], but it's like a modern, dancefloor sexy record.