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Arctic Monkeys’ Matt Helders has reassured fans by saying he hopes that the band will quit before they ever lose their touch.
Speaking to NME ahead of the release of their fifth album, AM, on Monday (September 9) the band's drummer said he’d hope that they’d stop before readers got bored of them.
“I’d like to think we’d stop before we saw it going that way [losing it]. I don’t know how it would be overnight, unless one of us was in some kind of scandal,” the drummer explained.
Helders was responding to the suggestion that many bands don;t know when to decide to call it a day.
“No, I know. I mean. you can say it all you like - ‘We’ll stop when we’re not good any more, or it’s not fun, or we’re not making good records’. We can say that all the time, but you probably don’t know, that’s the thing.”
Frontman Alex Turner, who has not had a break since the band signed their record contract, working with Miles Kane on The Last Shadow Puppets while his bandmates enjoyed some downtime in 2008, dismissed concerns that he might reach creative burnout.
Maybe I’ll arrive at that point soon rather than later,” he said.
“To be honest though, it’s not seemed like there’s been no gaps in it, even though the albums have come out pretty quick.”
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But he was adamant that his songwriting ability would never leave him.
“I don’t have time to worry about that, to tell you the truth. I think there’s always that thing... maybe it will just like, disappear And I could do some gardening or something.”
Arctic Monkeys release their fifth studio album, AM, on Monday (September 9) and it can currently be streamed on iTunes. The album features tracks including ‘R U Mine’ and ‘Do I Wanna Know?’, as well as guest appearances from the likes of Josh Homme.
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