Arctic Monkeys announce new album ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’

indieisnotagenre.com
3 min readApr 5, 2018

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Credit: Zackery Michael

After months of speculations, Arctic Monkeys finally announce their new album Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino will be released on May 11th via Domino Records. The artwork and tracklisting can be found below.

The new record, their first since 2013’s AM, was produced by James Ford and Alex Turner and recorded in Los Angeles, Paris and London. The first new music comes in the form of an album teaser video. Watch the trailer below.

The band have also recently announced a smal European tour to celebrate the album’s release. The tour kicks off on May 25th in Berlin and culminates on June 27th in Copenhagen. Support for the shows comes from Cameron Avery of Tame Impala. All dates and ticket links can be found below.

The band will also headline several European festivals over the course of the summer, including Primavera Sound, Rock Werchter and Sziget Festival. Dates and tickets for all festival shows can be found below.

Arctic Monkeys Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino artwork

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino tracklisting:

  1. Star Treatment
  2. One Point Perspective
  3. American Sports
  4. Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
  5. Golden Trunks
  6. Four Out Of Five
  7. The World’s First Ever Monster Truck Front Flip
  8. Science Fiction
  9. She Looks Like Fun
  10. Batphone
  11. The Ultracheese

Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino is available to preorder from the band’s webstore as of now. The album comes with a gatefold sleeve, lyric and photo booklet and exclusively via the AM Store, on silver vinyl.

Arctic Monkeys — Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (Teaser)

Tour dates:

HEADLINE SHOWS

MAY

05–05 Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Forever Cemetery [Sold Out]

05–22 Berlin, DE — Columbiahalle [Sold Out]

05–23 Berlin, DE — Columbiahalle [Sold Out]

05–26 Rome, IT — Cavea [Sold Out]

05–27 Rome, IT — Cavea [Sold Out]

05–29 Paris, FR — Zenith [Sold Out]

05–30 Paris, FR — Zenith [Sold Out]

JUNE

06–04 Milan, IT — Mediolanum [Sold Out]

06–16 Raleigh, NC — Red Hat Amphitheater [Sold Out]

06–18 Nashville, TN — Ascend Amphitheater

06–19 Atlanta, GA — Coca Cola Roxy Theatre [Sold Out]

06–26 Dusseldorf, DE — Mitsubishi Electric Halle [Sold Out]

06–27 Copenhagen, DK — Royal Arena

JULY

07–10 Lyon, FR — Les Nuits De Fourviere [Sold Out]

07–24 Queens, NY — Forest Hills Stadium [Sold Out]

07–27 Boston, MA — TD Garden

07–28 Washington, DC — The Anthem [Sold Out]

07–31 Pittsburgh, PA — Petersen Events Centre

AUGUST

08–01 Detroit, MI — Masonic Temple Theatre [Sold Out]

08–05 Toronto, ON — Air Canada Centre

FESTIVALS

JUNE

06–02 Barcelona, ES — Primavera Sound

06–08 Hilvarenbeek, NL — Best Kept Secret Festival

06–15 Dover, DE — Firefly Festival

06–22 Neuhausen Ob Eck, DE — Southside Festival

06–24 Scheessel, DE — Hurricane Festival

JULY

07–01 Glasgow, UK — TRNSMT Festival

07–04 Gdynia, PL — Oper’er Festival

07–06 Athens, GR — RockWave Festival

07–08 Wrechter, BE — Rock Wrechter

07–12 Lisbon, PT — NOS Alive

07–13 Madrid, ES — Mad Cool Festival

AUGUST

08–02 Chicago, IL — Lollapalooza

08–04 Montreal, QC — Osheaga Festival

08–08 Oslo, NO — Oya Festival

08–09 Gothenburg, SE — Way Out West Festival

08–11 Helsinki, FL — Flow Festival

08–14 Budapest, HU — Sziget Festival

Originally published at Indie is not a genre.

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