Rare Arctic Monkeys prints for real fans
Some images earn a place on the wall the moment you see them. The AM print is one: a single white waveform stretched across black, designed by Matthew Cooper from an original sketch by Alex Turner. The crests thicken into the letters A and M, hiding the title inside the sound itself. Released on 9 September 2013, AM made Arctic Monkeys the first band on an independent label to score five consecutive number one albums in the UK, and it later passed two million UK sales. It is the poster that says everything without a single word.
Start at the beginning with Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, the print of the record that shifted 363,735 copies in its first week and remains the fastest selling debut album by a band in British history. Hang it beside Favourite Worst Nightmare, the 2007 follow up that went straight to number one and closed on the track that would define a generation of listeners.
That track has its own print. The 505 poster nods to the deep cut that became a viral phenomenon a decade after release, crossing two billion Spotify streams and pulling a new audience toward the band's back catalogue. Pair it with the R U Mine? print, the riff that bridged the Suck It and See era into AM, and you have a wall built around the songs fans actually shout back.
