Ten years ago today (August 24), Arctic Monkeys released their sludgy, bold and supremely divisive third album 'Humbug'. Thomas Smith revisits the risks, the records and the sessions in the Californian desert that changed the band foreverOn July 6 2009, something dark and twisted leaked from BBC Radio 1. ‘Crying Lightning’ was Arctic Monkeys’ first single in over two years, and the first from third album ‘Humbug’, released over a month later. Except… it sounded absolutely nothing like the band who had found instant fame with 2005 debut ‘Whatever People Say […]The post 'Humbug' at 10: How Arctic Monkeys' desert-daze sparked the band's most divisive era appeared first on NME.