Beneath the Boardwalk Turner used to work. Slowly, as more demos were spread online, they were all classified under this name. This has led to many people falsely believing that "Beneath the Boardwalk" was an early album, or that the early demos were all released under this heading. In a 2005 interview with "Prefix Magazine", Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders said: Many of the songs featured in the collection (tracks 1, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 14) went on to appear later — albeit re-recorded — on Arctic Monkeys' debut album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not". The
Alex Turner released in May 2018. After receiving a Steinway Vertegrand piano as a 30th birthday present from his manager, Turner wrote the space-themed album from the perspective of "a lounge-y character". Having written "the most straight-up love letters" of his career on "Everything You've Come to Expect", he felt ready to explore wider themes. He recorded demos at home, and shared them with Cook in early 2017. Cook was initially taken-aback by the change in direction: "It took a few listens to even begin to, like… But I don’t think any of us wanted to make an "AM, Part Two", so