Blog: When The Gramophone Rings

As Arctic Monkeys prepare for the release of their fourth studio album, we get to wrap our ears around another nugget of Monkeyness in the form of Reckless Serenade .  If the two tasters we have heard so far - the driving Brick By Brick and the rollocking  Don't Sit Down Cos I Moved Your Chair - were a progression of Humbug 's desert rock, then Reckless Serenade sees them return, even in part, to the perky indie-pop of their first two albums. [...]

• Arctic Monkeys - Reckless Serenade