These 12 songs overflowed with adventure, humour, warmth, and bore a looseness and impulsive spirit that we hadnвЂ™t ever seen from the often self-effacing Monkeys. That mix of excitement and creative reinvention is something that would carry through to вЂSuck It And SeeвЂ™. But given the divisiveness that surrounded Arctic Monkeys from that point onwards, they had to be every bit as determined to prove themselves as they were at the start. вЂњIt turned on a light in another room,вЂќ he said. In a 2011 interview with The Sunday Times, Turner said that making вЂHumbugвЂ™ вЂњopened so many doorsвЂќ for the band, and subsequently gave them the liberty to steer away from the spiky indie-rock of 2006вЂ™s whip-smart, record-smashing debut, вЂWhatever People Say I Am, ThatвЂ™s What IвЂ™m NotвЂ™ and its deeply world-weary follow-up, вЂFavourite Worst NightmareвЂ™. The reasons that вЂHumbugвЂ™ was lauded by passionately defensive fans вЂ“ the intricacy, the darkness, the knowing wink to its psychedelic influences вЂ“ were the same reasons it attracted vitriol from others, and it unfairly emerged as a so-called slump. It was a shocking sonic breakthrough, a collection that was propelled by squalling, horror-infused songs loaded with daring musical turns and progged-out riffs. Released in August 2009, the bandвЂ™s third record took an off-road diversion into twisted desert rock. Coming out of the ever-polarising вЂHumbugвЂ™ era вЂ“ which marked their most deliberately opaque, challenging, and disorientating work yet вЂ“ theyвЂ™d perhaps lost a touch of the star power that their first two albums granted them. The build-up to вЂSuck It And SeeвЂ™ found Arctic Monkeys in a peculiar position. It was a breathtaking reinvention вЂ“ and one that proved that Arctic Monkeys were finally ready to blossom into the world-dominating stars they were always primed to become. At the time, clips of the electrifying performance posted to YouTube incited widespread disbelief among fans who had previously posited that the Sheffield quartet thrived off a mildly awkward, no-fuss stage presence. Throughout a 20-song set, the frontman operated at almost-rock-god levels of showmanship, from high-kicks to swivelling his hips with some seriously filthy swagger. Who wouldвЂ™ve thought that the refashioning of a previously feathered, вЂ70s-style barnet would be so transformative? When Turner debuted an Elvis-inspired quiff at a gig in Texas in August 2011, it became clear that the creation of his bandвЂ™s fourth album had ushered in a new, slick, uber-confident era of Arctic Monkeys. вЂњMaybe IвЂ™ve been liberated by the haircut?вЂќ вЂњItвЂ™s the first time IвЂ™ve had a haircutвЂ¦вЂќ Alex Turner told NME shortly after the release of Arctic MonkeysвЂ™ вЂSuck It And SeeвЂ™, which came out 10 years ago today (June 6).

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