cred and hip roster (which also included Franz Ferdinand, a touchstone for the band's sound). They continued to buck tradition by signing with Domino Records in 2005, eschewing a major-label's budget for Domino's D.I.Y. The musicians soon found themselves at the center of a growing media circus, with such outlets as BBC Radio examining the band's music and mounting hype.īy distributing their homemade material on the Internet, Arctic Monkeys were able to build a sizable fan base without the help of a record label, effectively circumventing the usual road to superstardom. A series of demo recordings followed, and Arctic Monkeys' audience swelled as fans circulated those recordings via the Internet. Two years later, they began performing shows around their native Sheffield with drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson, two fellow students at Stocksbridge High School. By that point, the band was a staple throughout the world: a respected, adventurous, and successful group that could easily be called Britain's biggest band of the early 21st century.Īlex Turner and guitarist Jamie Cook began their music careers in 2001, when the friends both received guitars for Christmas. Eventually, they also laced in some of the louche lounge aspects of Turner's swinging side project the Last Shadow Puppets, an evolution that began on 2018's arty Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino and deepened on its 2022 follow-up The Car. However, driven by their maverick creative spirit, Arctic Monkeys have proven highly unpredictable, reworking classic rock traditions on 2007's Favourite Worst Nightmare and beefing up their guitars with the assistance of Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme on 2009's Humbug. What set the group apart was Alex Turner, a singer/songwriter with a biting wit and grasp of English vernacular (not dissimilar to Paul Weller, the godfather of modern British rock).
rock album charts and took home the Mercury Prize.
Buoyed by the single "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor," their 2006 debut Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not briefly grabbed the title of fastest-selling album in British history. Assisted by rave reviews and online word of mouth (they were one of the first bands to benefit from social media), the band quickly became a sensation in the United Kingdom, where they were seen as the heir apparent to the throne left vacant by Oasis and the Libertines. With their nervy and literate indie rock sound, Arctic Monkeys arrived in 2005 with a blast.
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