Today saw the unveiling on Amazon.com of the first taste of the Strokes' New Album, 'Angles' due for a March 21 release. With The Strokes' relatively modest-cum-totally-fanatical fanbase frantic for a first hint at new material in over five years (during which the New Yorkers have played not one new song), this taster has to be big. It has to have all the dirty, slick-garage stylings of Is This It, along with that album's effortlessly emotive, ruminative, urban choruses.
On first (and grainy and truncated) listen, lead single 'Under Cover of Darkness''s sound falls somewhere between Is This It and Room On Fire, coming off as a Carribean cousin of 'Hard to Explain', complete with low-slung bass and ska-lite guitars. As ever with The Strokes, production will be a divisive issue- if this sample is representative of the end-product, the album will be a lo-fi affair. It's unclear from this tiny snippet whether the album will go down the "charming underground masterpiece" or "obscurist crash-and-burn" route. For now, however, the world of alternative music still awaits the return of its coolest prodigal sons.
Have a listen here and tell me what you think
Great song, love the production....except for the vocals. Too far back in the mix for Casablancas
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