Five years ago, after each one had gone to his side, here they are together again in 2011.
Is This It was Strokes first album. Marked a historic trip in popular music. The educated kids quintet, by that time surrounding 20 years old, didn´t glued to the Radiohead style in vogue.
They debuted with an explosive sound synthesis of New York, by Velvet Underground, Television, going through New York Dolls. More that a sonic recipe, it was the attitude of affected disaffection of "I want everything and care about nothing", that defined the zeitgeist of the new milenium, and puted New York again on the center of the musical whirl. It was followed up by Rume on Fire (2003), more directly marked by the post-punk legacy, and First Impressions of Earth ( 2006), a most pop and polished song collection. And then... nothing. Each one of the five strokes launched into singular adventures or had involved in paralel projects. In the past Summer they reunited again and gave some concerts, serving as reassels to the recording of Angels, the fourth album recently launched (Sony Music). The bass guitar player Nicolai Fraiture justified the return, revelating to the american magazine Spin that it is "like a wedding, it grows and developes, but after some time it turns into a routine. Something new is needed to keep it going. That is what everyone needs to do individually." In resume, having perfected a collective sound along three albuns, each one went to his side, exploring other musical lines, individual experiencies that gave vitamines to Angels. Angels, a dozen songs, borned from different perspectives. For the first time the songs were assined by the five Strokes. A return into the immediatism and to the 2011 dancing euphoria, like it happenes with the amazing debut single Under Cover of Darkness. Using samples, analogic keyboards, and so on, it gives us a new nature to the Strokes music, that could not be MORE 2011.
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