For Alex Turner, time is moving slowly, and the Arctic Monkeys frontman is using his to quote the cult book Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon to Vogue Australia. Some 20 years after Arctic Monkeys first formed - then, four scruffy teenagers kicking their heels in a back garden in Sheffield - Turner is sitting in an East London hotel looking towards the future and Arctic Monkeys' seventh album, released on the cusp of another new era for the group who have continuously retooled what that means.
"It reminds me of when Doc is in this new place, surrounded by people acting like regulars, and he feels out of place," Turner says, referencing the novel's protagonist. "He thinks about going back to his apartment,."
