1. "My Propeller" – 3:27
2. "Crying Lightning" – 3:42
3. "Dangerous Animals" – 4:20
4. "Secret Door" – 3:41
5. "Potion Approaching" – 3:32
6. "Fire and the Thud (featuring Alison Mosshart)" – 3:57
7. "Cornerstone" – 3:18
8. "Dance Little Liar" – 4:43
9. "Pretty Visitors" – 3:40
10. "The Jeweller's Hands" – 5:42
Humbug is the upcoming third album by the British alternative rock band Arctic Monkeys. Like their last release - 2007's Favourite Worst Nightmare - Humbug will be released first in Japan, on 19 August 2009, followed by Australia, on 21 August 2009. It will then be released in the UK on 24 August 2009 and in the US the following day. The release precedes the band's headline performances at the Reading and Leeds Festivals at the end of that week. The album's cover was revealed on the band's website on 22 June 2009. The songs "My Propeller", "Secret Door", "Cornerstone", "Pretty Visitors" and "Dance Little Liar" were leaked onto the Internet on July 26th, 27th and 28th, respectively.
Early previews of the album suggest that it is a departure from the style of the band's first two albums, with a prevailing influence from lead singer Alex Turner's The Last Shadow Puppets - the same "laconic croon" has been adopted by the whole band, "injecting the Arctics with a new sound that sends them onto wild soundscaping adventures". The album has been described as has having a "carnival-esque atmosphere", but it is described as a "spooky and ethereal trip, a lysergic cavalcade that haunts every track".
The band themselves suggested that the album would be "full-on", with tracks influenced by Black Sabbath, Alex Turner revealed that the band had listened to Jimi Hendrix and Cream while writing the new album.
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