new arctic monkeys song

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.

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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'.

come together

Which is what happened on Friday night when the world gathered at the opening of the Olympic Games in London. Film maker Danny Boyle's production was as crazy as it was spectacular included the unlikely appearance of UK's Arctic Monkeys in the middle of it all with a gutsy performance raising the spectre of John Lennon with a convincing work out of his Abbey Road album classic "Come Together".
The band's lead singer and guitarist Alex Turner nicely judged the moment and turned out in leather jacket, jeans and DA haircut as if the clock had stood still in rock and roll circa 1960 and ripped through their own "You Look Good On The Dance Floor" followed by a convincing and close cover of "Come Together" that Lennon would surely have approved.
Later comments from global twitter commentators like "Who the fuck are the Arctic Monkeys?" only went to prove it was well worth while having them turn up.
So "stick it in your ear" to the clueless, this is just the sort of thing that happens in Danny Boyle's vision of the UK and more than likely quite a few others, us included.
And as there's copyright restrictions on most 'Anything Olympic' which includes their performance here's the original and a clever bit of virtual Beatles live.