Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino, Arctic Monkeys' sixth album, arrived on Monday (May 14) and is described by Pitchfork as a left-turn if ever there was one, leaving behind the guitar rock of their early years.

According to the review, Alex Turner wrote the record in Los Angeles on an upright piano in his spare room, christening the makeshift studio the Lunar Surface after a theory about Stanley Kubrick.

For the review, the result finds the former street poet at his most visionary, with material only he could write and a performance only he could pull off. He veers from croons to falsetto, in songs that trade witty sleaze for absurdist suave.