In its first week following release the album sold over 220,000 copies, emulating Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not in going straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart, albeit selling 100,000 copies fewer t. Breathless praise is a time-honored tradition in British pop music, but even so, the whole brouhaha surrounding the 2006 debut of the Arctic Monkeys bordered on the absurd.
It wasn't enough for the Arctic Monkeys to be the best new band of 2006 they had to be the saviors of rock & roll. Favourite Worst Nightmare is the second studio album by Sheffield indie rock band Arctic Monkeys. On their second full-length, Favourite Worst Nightmare, they widen their sense of dynamics - Balaclava has a breakdown that suggests a love of Wars Latin-soul classic Low Rider - as Turner paints, this time more sourly, on a larger canvas. Recorded in East London's Miloco Studios with producers James Ford and Mike Crossey, the album was preceded by the release of new single Brianstorm on 16 April 2007. This is the band's first album with bassist Nick O'Malley, replacing their previous bassist Andy Nicholson, who left the band before the North America tour of the band's debut studio album.
