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Arctic Monkeys’ Discography: [6/6] “Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino” (2018)

“Sitting at the piano took me immediately to a different place.” he says. “There are chords that came out, my fingers were falling different places, and the sounds were giving me ideas. That I was the guy sitting at the piano also gave me ideas.” Once Tranquility was done and Turner had landed back on his Lunar Surface, he was quick to task himself with a new project: designing the album’s artwork. A visionary who has a hand in all aspects of his work, he knew he wanted it to mirror, in some way, the album’s title. “I liked the idea of naming [the album] after a place, because to me records that I’ve been in love with and continue to be in love with feel like they’re places that you can go for a while. I very much feel like if [Born to Be With You] were a place I would’ve moved there a long time ago.” For the album’s name, he plucked the place mentioned on the would-be title track, the fictional Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, on which he sings of “Jesus in the day spa filling out the information form,” because, “That [phrase] seemed like the right name for this family of music.” From there, he began to think about architectural models and started sketching ideas on a piece of graph paper. “I liked this idea of a six-sided shape, because it was the sixth record,” he relates. “I drew a hexagon, I thought that was a kind of dumb idea, and then two months later I made this spinning thing on top of a Revox tape machine. In between that, there are a lot of things that aren’t the artwork and I made a real mess. But it all makes sense to me now. In the past I’ve definitely had record covers that don’t, to me, represent what’s on the wax, and I certainly don’t feel that way about this one. By the end of it, I think I’d forgotten there even was a record. I’d just gotten obsessed with cardboard.”
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i can’t stop thinking about these tweets i saw from the people who met alex at fontaines dc, talking about how they also met “paddy” from fontaines, and i think they’re talking about conor curley, and i know his ig bio says that but i think it’s just a joke 😭 i have so much secondhand embarrassment from the thought that they might’ve called him a derogatory term for an irish person to his face thinking it’s his name 😭

#i’m hoping they’re just jokingly calling him it on twitter and didn’t say it to him but idk#it’s an honest mistake bc his ig does say it but girl did u not google the band 😭#(i know paddy can also be an affectionate nickname for patrick but his name isn’t patrick so….)
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