Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders has spoken about the bandโ€™s work on the follow-up to โ€˜Suck It And Seeโ€™ and has confirmed they are working on new tracks while on tour.

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The band are currently in the middle of a lengthy stint across the USA and Canada as support to The Black Keys on their US arena tour and Helders has confirmed that they have been using their soundchecks to work on new tunes.

Asked by Paste Magazine if the bandโ€™s new single โ€˜R U Mine?โ€™ would feature on the bandโ€™s next album, Helders replied: โ€œItโ€™s a standalone thing. Mainly because we kinda needed something new to put out for this tour I suppose. Weโ€™d already done four singles for โ€˜Suck It And Seeโ€™ so we decided to do something new. We havenโ€™t really started writing officially, a record or anything, but thereโ€™s a few things weโ€™re playing around with in sound checks.โ€

The drummer also said that the band had been very pleased with the online reaction to โ€˜R U Mine?โ€™ and in particular how people have responded to the songโ€™s video, which you can see by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.

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He said of this: โ€œThe idea was sometimes when were messing around driving we film ourselves singing stupid songs on the radio, people do that I think, and in a way we wanted to do a video we could put out straight away without any promotion which is what we did with โ€˜Brick By Brickโ€™. We didnโ€™t tell anybody we were releasing it, we just put it out. In a way, that worked better than any other video weโ€™ve put out. And โ€˜R U Mine?โ€™ more people have watched that than any other video on this album. So obviously it worked.โ€

Helders also spoke about how well the tour with The Black Keys was going and said that he and his bandmates had always been big fans of the โ€˜El Caminoโ€™ duo.

He added: โ€œWeโ€™re really big fans of Black Keys, kind of always have been. Itโ€™s a great tour to be able to watch them as much as you want as well. Weโ€™ve never done a support tour so itโ€™s quite a lot of excitement and fun to just go on for an hour and youโ€™ve got the rest of your night to enjoy as well.โ€

Arctic Monkeys announced earlier this week that they will be releasing a brand new track titled โ€˜Electricityโ€™ later this month.

The track will be released as the B-side to โ€˜R U Mine?โ€™, which is to be re-released on limited edition purple vinyl as part of this yearโ€™s Record Store Day on April 21.