England's Arctic Monkeys are in L.A. but not necessarily of it

The Arctic Monkeys' new album, 'AM,' features plenty of familiar grime, but singer-guitarist Alex Turner allows that the group's move to Los Angeles affected its approach. Alex Turner knows how it looks: A young British rock band, widely admired for its unflinching depictions of a pub-crawl demimonde, finds huge success at home, then packs up and moves to sunny Los Angeles just as it's on the verge of becoming a kind of national institution.

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