The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Having not released any new music together for seven years The Strokes released their sixth studio album on April 10th bang in the middle this UK lockdown. Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr, Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti (what a name) have finally got together and put pen to paper on what hopefully is going to be better then their last few offerings. Lets face it The Strokes haven't had a decent album since 2001s Is This It. That's nineteen years ago! Feel old? That album which sold around 1.5m copies (and in those days you actually had to go in a store and buy a cd) earned them rave reviews and put them on the map and rightly so. Hits like Last Night, Hard to Explain, Someday and New York City Cops are still as popular as ever on the indie scene and you'd have to have balls of steel to skip one of those during the pre-drinks sesh with your mates. The question is did The Strokes shoot their load too early with their masterpeice? Follow up album ...