Arctic Monkeys have almost completed the follow-up to 2007's Favourite Worst Nightmare, according to singer/guitarist Alex Turner. He is said to be "thrilled" with the band's progress to date.

"We're going to have us new album with you by the summer I think," he told Australian radio. "[It's] 78 per cent is done, I have been working in fractions actually – two thirds. [I'm] thrilled with it."

Turner also revealed how the recording sessions conducted by Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme had gone at his studio near the Joshua Tree National Park in California.

"It's been great fun," he said. "We went out to the desert for a little bit, we did two sessions with Josh, we had a great time.

"There's a few other buildings around there but it is certainly cut off. The guy who owns it is called Dave Catching, who plays guitar in the Eagles Of Death Metal, and it's his house. He was a great host.

"It's quite an inspiring place, there's a certain element of dust in the sound of it."

The band have recently debuted four new songs whilst touring New Zealand.

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