WAKE TF UP ARCTIC MONKEYS ARE ALIVE pic.twitter.com/AivixFkgCU

— َ AM7!!! (@tongueinostril) August 14, 2021

Fans of the Sheffield four-piece have responded to the post, which has racked up over 1000 likes in 5 hours.

The band toured relentlessly following their 6th album release and decided to go their separate ways in 2019, following a long and successful spell of playing shows worldwide.

Due to travel restrictions during the pandemic, the band was unable to meet each other. One-half of the band resides in LA and the other half in London. In recent months, fans have debated on Twitter whether or not the Arctic Monkeys would have produced more music if it hadn’t been for the global pandemic of 2020. Drummer Matt Helders set the record straight in a podcast with Shapel Lacey, explaining that the band would have been ready to get the ball rolling again for album number 7 if it wasn’t for the global pandemic.

That said, there may be good news on the horizon for fans after all, as a new album is reportedly in the works. According to a statement taken from the Butley Priory’s website, the band has used the venue to record new material. The Priory bodes well as a venue that provides many possibilities for musicians: “Musicians love the acoustics in the Great Hall and Drawing room, with their huge vaulted ceilings.”

Nothing has been confirmed yet by the band.

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The winning song is featured in the album ‘Djesse Vol. 3’, released in August 2020, which was written, arranged, recorded and mixed in Jacob’s childhood bedroom. This body of work was nominated for Best Album, with the song ‘All I Need’ featuring Ty Dolla Sign and Mahalia also nominated for Best R&B Performance. Eventually, ‘He Won’t Hold You (Feat. Rapsody)’ gets the music virtuoso his fifth Grammy – his third for the Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals category.

Having grown up in a musical family, Collier started playing around the age of seven. He is now well known in the music industry for being a self-taught, DIY music prodigy, playing and looping all the instruments by himself as well as building songs layer after layer. In 2014, the artist was discovered and signed by Quincy Jones, after his rendition of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing’ went viral on YouTube.

In the same year, the musical mastermind started collaborating with Ben Bloomberg, a Ph.D. student in the Media Lab in the Opera of the Future group, to develop a software for live performances, allowing Collier to transform regular concerts into one-man shows. From there on, his talents brought him to collaborate with artists of the calibre of arranger and composer Hans Zimmer, international star Pharrell Williams and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and was defined as a modern Mozart with Prince’s songwriting style.

More about British acts taking over the 63^rd Grammy Awards can be found here.

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