AM: Album Research

For their latest album, Arctic Monkeys have taken a similar simplistic approach to the design of the album art as is seen on Suck It and See.

The AM album art is very striking and iconic, showing the same soundwaves as seen in the music video for Do I Wanna Know. Since the band is already quite famous they can easily get away with such a simple cover.
The album art also coincides with a black and white theme seen in the music video R U Mine (the first single released off AM) and seems very similar to the album art for Do I Wanna Know, this gives AM and its singles a nice consistent feel.

Originally, when AM was first put up on Itunes for pre order, the album art was a black and white photograph (seen right) but after the release of Do I Wanna Know they changed it to the iconic soundwave line.

• The black and white theme is also seen in the album art for the single Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High which shows phone buttons with the word 'HIGH' on the number 4 button. Again, this seems to be a very simplistic approach, with no details about the name of the song or even the artist who sings it on the art.