The Strokes return to the studio

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sun Mar 20, 2011 9:56 pm

Hegel Wrote:

Plus, I could listen to Under cover of Darkness over and over.

+1

mcaputo · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:07 am

Bummer.
First listen this a.m.I couldn't even get through the whole thing.

Dalen · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:04 pm

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15230-angles/

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 1:17 pm

I think I like it a little more than Pitchfork does...its certainly better than I thought it would be.

The last two tracks on the record are garbage.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

I only listened once, but my gut reaction is that I like this in the way I like a bands waning albums. This wouldn't an album to turn anyone into a fan, but something to listen to when you are bored of your favorites. I'm glad it exists but it's not making me any more of a fan than I already was, but also not any less like the last one threatened to do.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:21 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

I only listened once, but my gut reaction is that I like this in the way I like a bands waning albums. This wouldn't an album to turn anyone into a fan, but something to listen to when you are bored of your favorites. I'm glad it exists but it's not making me any more of a fan than I already was, but also not any less like the last one threatened to do.

Just when I think I've wrapped my head around this statement, it unravels.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

It's missing a few key words, which happens when I change sentences while I'm writing and then don't reread.

"OH I'M SURE IT MAKES SENSE, JUST HIT SEND"

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 7:28 pm

It made sense to me. I could pick at it if I wanted to, but I could tell what you meant.

Sex, Drugs, and Dave · **Posted:** Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:29 pm

I get ya jewels!

DumpJack · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:38 pm

Quote:

Believe it or not, the Strokes are ready to write a new album. While the band's Angles was just released this past Tuesday (March 22), bassist Nikolai Fraiture let it slip that the group are already set to work on its follow-up.

"We were just talking about when we would get back together and start writing for the next album," he said in an interview with XFM. "It should be soon. April, mid-April."

The four-stringer's statement is just the latest to hint at some even fresher Strokes songs coming our way. Guitarist Nick Valensi recently told Shortlist that the band have a bunch of new tunes ready to be unleashed upon listeners.

"We have a lot of music stockpiled, so, in terms of content, we're in a good place right now. If I had it my way, we'd have another album out by the end of this year," he said.

Considering the acclaim the album has received, not to mention how excited and animated the band were during their run-through of "Taken for a Fool" on Late Night with David Letterman earlier this week, it looks as if the Strokes might be back in it for the long haul.

catswilleatyou · **Posted:** Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:43 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Quote:

Believe it or not, the Strokes are ready to write a new album. While the band's Angles was just released this past Tuesday (March 22), bassist Nikolai Fraiture let it slip that the group are already set to work on its follow-up.

"We were just talking about when we would get back together and start writing for the next album," he said in an interview with XFM. "It should be soon. April, mid-April."

The four-stringer's statement is just the latest to hint at some even fresher Strokes songs coming our way. Guitarist Nick Valensi recently told Shortlist that the band have a bunch of new tunes ready to be unleashed upon listeners.

"We have a lot of music stockpiled, so, in terms of content, we're in a good place right now. If I had it my way, we'd have another album out by the end of this year," he said.

Considering the acclaim the album has received, not to mention how excited and animated the band were during their run-through of "Taken for a Fool" on Late Night with David Letterman earlier this week, it looks as if the Strokes might be back in it for the long haul.

it is not possible for them to write a worse album than Angles.

el_scorcho · **Posted:** Sat Mar 26, 2011 9:54 pm

It's not a horrible record. I just feel like it is barely there. Most of the album blows by without making much of an impression one way or the other, and it is way too short. It almost plays out more like an extended ep/single for Under Cover of Darkness.

Incidentally, this is almost exactly how I feel about King of Limbs.

Cupcakes · **Joined:** Sat Nov 12, 2005 12:04 am **Posts:** 3271

el_scorcho Wrote:

It's not a horrible record. I just feel like it is barely there. Most of the album blows by without making much of an impression one way or the other, and it is way too short. It almost plays out more like an extended ep/single for Under Cover of Darkness.

Incidentally, this is almost exactly how I feel about King of Limbs.

"It's not a horrible record"
Banter translation:
"It's a bad record".

SundayForever · **Joined:** Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:23 pm **Posts:** 7

i saw them on friday and was a little disappointed to not hear any new songs, but they absolutely owned the old stuff. i was floored.

FT · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:41 am

pretty hit or miss, which, to me, is an apt description of the strokes in general

"macchu picchu" reminds me of jerry harrison's casual gods, a universally hated late-'80s/early-'90s side project by the former talking heads guitarist, which i actually enjoyed

FT · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:43 am

Elvis Fu Wrote:

I hear The Cars and Queen and Thin Lizzy and bits of things I typically don't like on their own, but when balled together and mumbled back out, it seems to work. I pretty much hate 80s music, and this keeps reminding me of the 80s, but I can't turn it off.

definitely hear thin lizzy in "gratisfaction"

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Mon Mar 28, 2011 11:52 am

Bloor hipped me to David Fricke's 4 Star knob slob over this:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/album ... s-20110316

the dude with the world's worst haircut Wrote:

With its sudden-U-turn songwriting and curt execution, Angles is the best album that Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti have made since 2001's Is This It, the cannonball that inaugurated the modern-garage era.

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