By distilling the sounds of Franz Ferdinand, the Clash, the Strokes, and the Libertines into a hybrid of swaggering indie rock and danceable
neo-punk, Arctic Monkeys became one of the U.K.'s biggest bands of the new millennium.
Arctic Monkeys are a British indie band from Sheffield, England. Their first album was Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not.
It reached #1 in the United Kingdom album charts. Over 300 thousand copies of the album were sold in the first week. This
makes it the fasting selling debut album by a band in British music history.
Their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare was first released in Japan on April 18, 2007.
Their third album, Humbug was released in England on 24 August 2009.
In 2011 their fourth album Suck It and See was released.
AM, the Monkeys' fifth album, was released 6 September 2013.
The members are (from left to right) Jamie Cook (guitar), Nick O'Malley (bass guitar), Matt Helders (drums) and Alex Turner (guitar and singer).