Blog: A Future in Noise

I feel as if I have been waiting for this forever. The last Strokes album, First Impressions of Earth , came out in 2006, and came off as uneven and awkward, leaving me significantly less than satisfied. Not that I wanted them to keep being the garage rock revivalists of Is This It (2001), undoubtedly one of the most important albums of the 2000s, but the spark seemed to have been slowly slipping since Room on Fire , despite a handful of standout tunes from album #2 ("What Ever Happened?", "Reptilia", "12:51") and #3 ("You Only [...]

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