14 January 2021 Share with: Drummer Matt Helders has revealed the group are working on a follow-up to 2018's 'Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino', but the band have been "faced with various obstacles" amid the coronavirus pandemic. He said: "Being separated by the sea is one of them. "We’re all eager to do it - we would have been doing it by now in a normal time. "There’s definitely a desire from our end to do a new record, as soon as we can." The 34-year-old stickman - who is originally from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, where his fellow band members, Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, and Nick O'Malley also hail from - is currently based in Los Angeles, where he has been working on his drumming.