Word about the Strokes new album has been circling the web for a while now, but details have been pretty hush. I had a chance to see the Strokes play at Lollapalooza over the summer and without a doubt it was one of the best shows I have seen. The crowd was ecstatic, the instrumentation was tight and the band carried themselves like true rockstars. The Strokes seem to have their momentum and swagger back after being inactive for so long. The release of this year's Angles will be one of the most touted of the year and a test for the band.
Not to sound desperate, but the music world needs another release from the Strokes on par with 2001's Is This It?. It is time for the Strokes to take their crown back.
We've now got an album title, Angles, a release date, March 22nd via RCA and a tracklist. First single "Under Cover of Darkness" will be released some time next month.
The Strokes - Angles
01 Machu Picchu
02 Under Cover of Darkness
03 Two Kinds of Happiness
04 You're So Right
05 Taken for a Fool
06 Games
07 Call Me Back
08 Gratisfaction
09 Metabolism
10 Life Is Simple in the Moonlight
Just checked out a Q+A with Nick Valensi of the Strokes on their myspace. He had a couple of interesting things to say about the new record, the future of the Strokes, and more. When asked about pleasing fans with this new record he said...
ReplyDelete"I feel like it’s gonna be impossible for us to make music that’ll live up five years of nothing. It’s kind of that Chinese Democracy syndrome. You take that much time off.. no matter what you do it’s not gonna be as good as people want it to be. I feel like no matter what the record is, or how hard we worked on it, or how much we like it, it’s not gonna live up to people’s expectations only because of those five years between the last one and this one. If we had just released this a year or two after the last one, I imagine it would have gone better."
I know I said we need another great record from the Strokes, but maybe what we really need is to be satisfied with the fact that there is a future for the band. Regardless, we'll have a lot to talk about March 22nd.