Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys has been sharing new updates with followers, suggesting that new solo materials might be on the best way.
The Arctic Monkeys drummer and backing vocalist has been sharing new footage throughout his social media over the previous couple of days, displaying that he’s within the studio and underway with writing some new materials.
The primary teaser arrived two days in the past, when Helders shared a short clip of himself within the studio together with the caption: “No.01”. It confirmed a compilation of clips of him within the studio, all in distinctive low high quality and displaying transient snippets of digital music. The fabric appears to have a laid-back, ‘90s really feel to it, and steadily builds up because the video progresses.
Yesterday (April 13), one other clip was shared. It has the identical low-quality footage because the predecessor and likewise reveals Helders in his studio. Coming with the caption ‘No.02’, it contained audio of what appears to be a special observe, which was extra upbeat than the primary one.
This morning (14), one other clip has been shared, following the identical format as the 2 prior clips, though beginning with footage of the musician holding up a label to the digital camera which reads “No.03”. The audio on this clip has a glassy, almost-playful really feel, and is consistent with the digital style specified by the sooner movies. Try all three posts under.
If the brand new teasers do ultimately quantity to a full-on solo album from Helders, it can comply with on from the DJ combine album he shared again in 2008. That file marked the twenty first instalment within the Late Night time Tales sequence, and noticed the AM member put his personal spin on tracks from The Black Keys, The Stooges, Goblin, Mos Def and extra.
Except for that and his work with Arctic Monkeys, Helders has additionally been a member of Iggy Pop’s Submit Pop Despair band, the place he carried out with Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Dean Fertita.
He has additionally launched into varied different tasks away from AM through the years too – together with making remixes of tracks from The Hives, Duran Duran, Paul Weller and Roots Manuva, and collaborations with the likes of Woman Gaga, Toddla T, and The Final Shadow Puppets.
Hints a couple of solo album have been round since 2018, when he stated in an interview that he was underway with work for a brand new LP and decided to make “rather a lot” of fabric to justify a full album.
“I really feel like I’ve bought to do a specific amount earlier than it’s deserved in a method. I don’t need to do it too quickly after which remorse it, like ‘Oh, I shouldn’t have made that sort of file’,” he stated. “I need to make lots of music after which like, ‘Oh, that’s the factor I like about this’.”
He continued: “I believe I’m getting to a degree now by which the type has developed and what I need to do is extra clear to me than it was earlier than. ”
Later that yr, he went on to share extra hints concerning the file, describing the music he’s been engaged on as “like a John Carpenter sort of factor”.
“There isn’t actually a aim for what it will likely be but. I’m simply attempting to drop within the instruments in case, whether or not it’s a rating or a file or what,” he added. “I’m simply having fun with it as a passion and, when that results in one thing, I believe that feels a bit higher for me when it’s, like, simply one thing I wished to do and have curiosity in.”
Whereas that full-blown solo album hasn’t but materialised, the next yr did see Helders be a part of up with Milburn frontman Joe Carnall for a retro-futuristic pop file referred to as ‘Good Cop Dangerous Cop’. Shared in 2019, the file was given a three-star evaluation from NME, and described as “fairly the developed beast from their scratchy storage rock beginnings.”
In 2021, Helders remixed She Drew The Gun‘s ‘Behave Myself’, and in 2023 he joined up with Albert Hammond Jr as a part of the latter’s solo album ‘Melodies On Hiatus’.
Except for music, the artist has additionally taken an curiosity in pictures, and has even been answerable for the quilt paintings for Arctic Monkey’s newest album, ‘The Automobile’. In an interview again in 2023, he recalled capturing the featured picture with an extended lens from the window of his former condo in Los Angeles. He additionally defined that he prefers home scenes over the enduring type of photographers like Terry O’Neill.
Their final album dropped on the finish of 2022, and was given a glowing five-star evaluation by NME, who described it as “a swashbuckling, strings-fuelled epic”.
It additionally noticed the Sheffield band lock in an epic headline slot at Glastonbury 2023, and head out on an enormous world tour – which they ended by bringing out James Ford and Miles Kane as particular friends.
As for Helders, the drummer started 2025 by becoming a member of Cameo to assist these affected by the wildfires in LA.
