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British rockers ARCTIC MONKEYS are ditching their trademark sound for more dance-inspired tunes - but insist the move is just "a return to their musical roots". The band are currently working on their second album, after the success of 2006's WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT. Frontman ALEX TURNER believes the new tracks are experimental - with many of them beginning as impromptu mobile phone recordings. He says, "We've tried to experiment - that's a bit of a dangerous word, but we've tried to push on with that. "We'd be in soundchecks and it would be, 'F**king hell, what's that (sound) about?' So we'd record it on a phone. We ended up with breaks almost. "I've always been into beats, we were into that before we were into THE STROKES."