FRIDAY UPDATE : IDIOTS HAVE MADE A COPYRIGHT CLAIM SO BPI HAVE PULLED IT.
Which could mean anything from the image in the video, lyrics, unofficial release, the weather, how long is a piece of string, what time of day it is, what year it is (somebody already owns '2013')...
..so thank you for the effort one and all.
2013 and the Arctic Monkeys have been really busy. World tour, festivals and recording the new album AM, of which they've just released a song from on YouTube.
A song of our times titled '2013', with it's back reference to Dylan's 1964 'Times They Are A Changin' in the opening lines rewritten to "Well the times are so a'changin". Alex Turner goes on to describe the munching consumerism of Apple, Smart Devices and the virtual world his/this girl is caught in.
"On the back of her transmitter
There's a little shiny fruit
And it's coming after you"
As for instagram and twitter
She got caught in both pursuits
It's a dark brew of a tale, as reflected by the black and white lo-tech video still, with a decidedly Lennon/Beatle like middle section.
The albums due out September 10th. (Advance orders from here) and further touring this Autumn. It should be very good judging by '2013'.
