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Metacritic	74/100
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The Independent
NME	9/10
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Rolling Stone
Spin	8/10

Suck It and See is the fourth studio album by the English indie rock band Arctic Monkeys, released in June 2011 on Domino. The album was produced by the band's longtime collaborator James Ford at Sound City Studios, Los Angeles, with both him and drummer Matt Helders promising to deliver a more "instant", "poppy", and "vintage" sound in comparison to the band's darker, polarising previous album, Humbug.

Arctic Monkeys wrote the album throughout 2010, with Alex Turner writing the majority of the songs in New York, and the rest in London. Rather than repeat the heavily produced, studio production style, and darker sound of Humbug, the band's previous effort, much of the album was recorded in live takes with minimal overdubs, with producer James Ford in Los Angeles, California, over five weeks in January/February 2011. Alex Turner has commented that rather than going into the studio with only rough sketches of songs, and making heavy use of overdubbing, the band focused much of their time rehearsing written songs together, coming up with new ideas in the process.

The band settled on "Suck It and See" as the title after debating between titles such as "The Rain-Shaped Shimmer Trap", "The Thunder-Suckle Fuzz Canyon", "The Blond-O-Sonic Rape Alarm", and "Thriller", according to a band interview in the NME. This latter may have been a joke. The phrase "Suck It And See" appears as a graffito in the film A Clockwork Orange.

The track "Piledriver Waltz" was first released on Alex Turner's debut EP, Submarine, where it was credited to Turner as a solo artist, featuring Ford on drums. The version included on Suck It and See is a re-recording with the whole band involved.

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