Alex Turner has revealed that the Arctic Monkeys' 2018 album 'Tranquillity Base Hotel + Casino' was shaped by his admiration for Phil Spector's famously dense "Wall of Sound" production, particularly as heard on Dion's 1975 record 'Born to Be With You'. The revelation offers insight into how the band deliberately abandoned the guitar-driven rock of 'AM' in favour of a stranger, lounge-pop sound built around a loose science-fiction concept, showing a group unwilling to simply repeat past success.

Recording at La Frette Studios in France, Turner sought to recreate Spector's technique of packing musicians into one room so the sound would spill across all the microphones, citing the outro of 'Four Out of Five' as an example. He also drew on Leonard Cohen's 1977 album 'Death of a Ladies' Man', another Spector production, telling NME he wanted his record "to be a bit like them". Turner said the band only partially embraced the approach this time but would like to "go the whole way" in future, and traces of that lavish style later resurfaced on the Arctic Monkeys' follow-up album 'The Car'.