Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

Turner wrote the album in 2017 on a Steinway Vertegrand piano at his Los Angeles home. He told BBC Radio 1 that the guitar had lost its ability to give him ideas. Recording began in September 2017 at Vox Studios in Hollywood and La Frette in Paris, with further sessions in London, and James Ford co-produced with Turner. The musicians played together in a single room, influenced by images of the sessions for the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. Turner designed the artwork himself.

The record is a concept album about a luxury hotel at Tranquility Base, the site of the 1969 Moon landing. It became the band's sixth consecutive UK number one and the fastest-selling vinyl record in the UK in 25 years. It was nominated for the 2018 Mercury Prize and for the Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album, and Q named it album of the year. The Guardian's review said there was almost nothing to connect it with the stadium indie rock of AM.