Arctic Monkeys will start work on new songs this summer

Arctic Monkeys' frontman Alex Turner has announced that the band is going to start work on new songs this summer. The new songs will form the basis for the band's forthcoming third album, although the band do not have plans to release it this year.

Turner said: «We did a bit writing in January. We had tunes that we'd already been playing on tour so we recorded them. That’s six songs».

It's been exactly a year since the band released their acclaimed second album Favourite Worst Nightmare.