Video: Julian Casablancas - "River of Brakelights"

Julian Casablancas hat mit seinem Solo-Debüt "Phrazes for the Young" nicht nur positive Kritiken hervorgerufen. Eine Verteidigung inklusive Bonustracks. "Haften bleibt kaum etwas, eingängig sind bloss die Allerweltsweisheiten im CD-Booklet", schreibt der Tages-Anzeiger über Julian Casablancas und seine Debüt-Platte. "Veto" schreie ich da. Wenn Songs wie "11th Dimensions" oder "River of Brakelights" nicht haften bleiben, dann [...]

By now you're very much aware that frontStroke Julian Casablancas is getting into the solo album racket . You've probably also enjoyed the many melodic curves and turns of that album's synthtastic early listen, "11th Dimension." Casablancas will be bestowing further riches in the coming weeks by finally releasing Phrazes for the Young (November 2nd in the UK; November 3rd in the States) and spending the month of November in residence at LA's Downtown Palace Theater. Every Friday of next month he'll be performing solo cuts which, considering how wildly what we've heard has differed [...]

Here's another track Casablancas' first solo effort, Phrazes for the Young, which comes out on November 3rd. Its madcap pacing sounds odd and hurried, its up-and-down riff is an earworm of the worst order--what is the appeal of this? This is montage music for a cut-rate evil robot assembling factory. Imagine it blaring with laughable urgency as glowing red eyes flick on and whirring motors propel the robots, single file, to their certain death at...

Poco a poco vamos conociendo más temas y cosillas del primer disco solista de Julian Casablancas que será presentado muy pronto y finalmente podemos escuchar más canciones completas . Esta vez la que se "filtró" fue "River of Brakelights", una canción que empieza muy arriba y con un ritmo bastante industrial y que se hace completamente bailable y groovera cuando Casablancas comienza a cantar. Parece que como podemos ver en los avances que se hicieron hasta ahora los sintetizadores tienen un rol más que importante en la producción. [...]

After taking us to the 11th Dimension Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas takes a detour to anxiety-town (population you bro) in "River Of Brakelights", the second single from Casablancas' debut solo outing Phrazes for the Young . For purists who love the arm's length detachment, don't fret, Julian's down the phone vocal delivery is still in tact - version 2.0 just imbues the drawl with more desperation. The music however, is the busiest and most schizophrenic of any Strokes output we've heard. It sounds like Casablancas is calling the other Strokes from a panic [...]