Suffice to say, as they have awaited Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the only thing fans have been sure of is that they are certainly not getting AM part deux.īut in many ways, it doesn’t matter what Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino sounds like. It took a lot more thinking about,' while Turner told Rolling Stone that as he sat down to write music at a piano, the places his fingers instinctively fell “suggested to me this idea of a lounge-y character, which never would have occurred to me had I been playing a guitar.” He has cited Serge Gainsbourg as a major influence and early reviews point to preoccupations with Los Angeles (where Turner and drummer Matt Helders live) and virtual reality. In their first interview for this album campaign, guitarist Jamie Cook told Mojo, “It’s definitely not a guitar-heavy record, not typically what we’d do. In the lead up to that landing date, the band have issued no advance singles and details about the record have proved surprising.
