Arctic Monkeys have shared the latest lavish, orchestral taste of their new album, The Car. A music video for "Body Paint" is out now.
The song starts as a lounge-y piano ballad, with singer Alex Turner's smooth croon and acrobatic falsetto supported by swooping strings. It gets practically Victorian during a stately bridge in which the strings take over, ahead of a second half where gritty guitars push the song into a slightly more rocking direction.
The accompanying video is similarly retro and unpredictable, with scenes from a sound stage intercut with cryptic, free-association images of tropical cocktails, helicopters, a burning tarot card and more. It was directed by Brook Linder.
Watch the clip below. They will play the song tonight on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The Car is out on October 21 — which, Carly Rae Jepsen wants you to know, is the same day as both her album and Taylor Swift's are out. Arctic Monkeys previously released the similarly grand "There'd Better Be a Mirrorball."
The song starts as a lounge-y piano ballad, with singer Alex Turner's smooth croon and acrobatic falsetto supported by swooping strings. It gets practically Victorian during a stately bridge in which the strings take over, ahead of a second half where gritty guitars push the song into a slightly more rocking direction.
The accompanying video is similarly retro and unpredictable, with scenes from a sound stage intercut with cryptic, free-association images of tropical cocktails, helicopters, a burning tarot card and more. It was directed by Brook Linder.
Watch the clip below. They will play the song tonight on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The Car is out on October 21 — which, Carly Rae Jepsen wants you to know, is the same day as both her album and Taylor Swift's are out. Arctic Monkeys previously released the similarly grand "There'd Better Be a Mirrorball."