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In closing I can honesty say this is one of the better CD's I have heard in a long time and one of best in my collection of music CD's. If you are like me who have tried at least 5 pressings of this record and could not find the "best pressing.

Arctic Monkeys – AM (2021, Gatefold, Vinyl) - Discogs

It was also nominated for the 2013 Mercury Prize and received a Best Rock Performance nomination for "Do I Wanna Know?Simon Harper of Clash magazine states: "Welding inspiration from hip-hop greats with rock's titans, AM is built upon portentous beats that are dark and intimidating, yet wickedly thrilling. It featured in many year-end lists as one of the best albums of 2013, including the BBC who named it the best of the year. Its success, however, rested on the two things that had always made them special: Alex Turner's wry way with words, and his way with a tune. On 15 September 2013, the album charted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, having sold 157,329 copies, thus becoming the second fastest-selling album of the year, behind Daft Punk's Random Access Memories.

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NME ranked AM number 449 on their list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, after it only being out for a month. Mastering is perfect by Chris Bellman the pressing on the other hand is dish_warped noisy side one is full of crackle.Ray Rahman of Entertainment Weekly gave it an 'A−', and opined that " AM mixes Velvet Underground melodies, Black Sabbath riffs, and playful grooves, and has fun doing it. Fireside good song with killer beat and good lyrics about hiding secrets and what it cost you because sometimes it feels like your losing the fight. Dre beat, but we've given it an Ike Turner bowl-cut and sent it galloping across the desert on a Stratocaster", adding that it "sounds less like four lads playing in a room this time. In their 10/10 review, NME wrote that AM is "absolutely and unarguably the greatest record of their career. The song received significant airplay, including joining BBC Radio 1's "B List", and later moving to the "A List".

Arctic Monkeys - AM - (Vinyl LP) | Rough Trade

Arctic Monkeys’ 5th studio album is a wickedly seductive record, draped in black leather and wielding a switch-blade.

In the first interview of the AM press campaign, Alex Turner told journalist Matt Wilkinson of NME that the album sounded "like a Dr. I did notice while listening to the CD that eight songs were in the three to four minute range, one song was roughly about two and half minutes long, while the other three songs were in the four to five minute range. AM received critical acclaim, with critics praising its darker and groovier sound in comparison to the band's previous records. Snap Out of It" impacted contemporary hit radio [ clarification needed] in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2014 as the album's sixth single.