New Arctics LP 'influenced by westerns'

Matt Helders of the Arctic Monkeys has disclosed that the Sheffield band's new album will be influenced by spaghetti westerns.

The indie band have been working on their follow-up to last year's Favourite Worst Nightmare with Josh Homme of Queens Of The Stone Age in California, with Helders acknowledging that the surrounding landscape had made an impression.

He told BBC 6Music: "I don't know whether the desert had much of an influence on the sounds, but it must have done across the lines because like I say, it had an effect on us. So maybe subconsciously there'll be some 'spaghetti' in there."