Suck It and See

Occupation

  • Vocals, guitar Alex Turner
  • Guitar: Jamie Cook
  • Bass: Nick O'Malley
  • Drums: Matt Helders
  • Keyboard: John Ashton
  • Background Vocals: Joshua Homme

Suck It and See is the fourth studio album by British indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. It was released on June 3, 2011 at the indie label Domino Records.

Creation and publication

Work on the new album started in early 2010 as the frontman Alex Turner started to write the songs. The recordings began in the winter of 2010 and lasted until early 2011. The recordings were not made ​​for the first time in England. Instead, they chose the Sound City Studios in Los Angeles as a shooting place. As a producer James Ford was elected, who has worked as a producer on Favourite Worst Nightmare for the Arctic Monkeys.

7 March 2011 appeared with Brick by Brick, the first video for the new album, three days later first details on the album were released. A short time later, said Matt Helders, Brick by Brick that will not be the first single. On April 16, appeared with Do not Sit Down ' Cause I've Moved Your Chair, the first single, initially only as a limited edition of 1000 vinyl editions. In larger edition, the single was released then on 30 May 2011. The single reached number 28 in the UK singles chart and was able to keep there nine weeks. On 30 May 2011 the album was published in advance on the online platform SoundCloud. The album itself was released on June 3, 2011 in Germany, on June 6, 2011 in the UK and one day later in the United States. In the UK, the album was immediately able to enter at No. 1 on the album charts.

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Reception

Critically, the album received mostly positive reviews to average.

Andreas Bättig awards on laut.de 4 of 5 stars and said that the album doing good mood.

On plattentests.de, the album 7 out of 10 points. Critic Thomas Pilgrim praises above all the texts.

From Rolling Stone Album receives 3.5 out of 5 stars. Critic Jody Rosen says that Suck It and See is the best ever album of the band.

Arne Janssen of cdstarts.de, the album 6 out of 10 points. In his opinion, makes the album very well hear the piece, but missing the true highlights.

Whiskey - soda.de awards the school grade 1 and says that they could not utter a better album.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded on allmusic.com 3.5 out of 5 stars and writes that the album is indeed good listen, but a real highlight missing.

Record label Domino Recording Company Genre Post-Punk Singing Alex Turner (musician) Electronic keyboard James Ford (musician) Humbug (Album) Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys Arctic Monkeys discography
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