BBC’s Shamir Masri broke the news with a tweet earlier this morning. “Alex Turner told me during an interview for BBC Sheffield they are coming back to Sheffield to pen a new album,” Masri wrote. “It IS happening!”
“Ylajali is a fictional woman in Knut Hamsun’s novel Hunger from 1890. The protagonist sees a woman on the street early in the novel. He decides to follow her and scare her and he imagines her name is Ylajali. Later, it is sometimes unclear what is dream and what is reality in scenes where Ylajali is involved.”