How Arctic Monkeys’ isolation album ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ predicted pandemic life
nme.com“No one's on the streets," Alex Turner crooned on the band's sixth record, which explored solitude and social media, "We moved it all online / As of March”When Alex Turner hunkered down, isolated, in the spare bedroom of his Los Angeles home in front of a Steinway Vertegrand piano in 2016, it’s highly unlikely he knew that the end product would only become more profound two years down the line as the world copes with a global pandemic.It’s surely impossible not to see, right now, that 2018’s ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ is the perfect encapsulation of 2020; an album borne out of isolation now hits even harder than before.If you strip away the dreamy guitars, retro-futuristic sound and lounge singer shimmer, the Arctic Monkeys’ divisive.
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