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Arctic Monkeys plan new EP
Fast-emerging Sheffield rockers, set to hit the US with a concert tour next week, will include new batch of songs on next single release.
With US fans about to get a live taste of the Arctic Monkeys, the Sheffield quartet is striking while the iron is hot by prepping an EP of new tracks.
The British buzz sensation's debut album, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, is the fastest-selling debut album in British chart history with first-week sales of 360,000 copies, and the album currently sits in the top 50 on the Billboard 200.
The Monkeys are set to play Saturday Night Live this weekend and two nights later they will kick off a 12-date North American tour in San Francisco.
The tour includes stops at industry bash South by Southwest in Austin, as well as Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, DC, and Seattle. The band will also open for Oasis in Toronto March 20.
But just as US fans are getting to know the buzz band, the rockers plan to release an EP of new material, according to NME.com.
The band will likely expand the planned April release of the single "The View From The Afternoon" to include new material they have been working on between tours.
"Yeah we're doing an EP for the next single, whenever it's going to be," guitarist Jamie Cooke told NME.com. "It's going to be new 'uns."
"We're going to finish the new songs, then we're going to record them, then we're going to play them live and stick them on a CD," said bassist Andy Nicholson. "It's probably going to be an external player, I'm not joking, five songs, and it's hopefully going be out in April. Fingers crossed."
The EP will likely include the tracks "Leaving Before The Lights Come On," which the band previewed on their recent UK tour, "Do Me a Favour," "Three Episodes Where Someone Else Got In The Way," and "I Wish You Would Have Smiled In The Bakery."
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