The Strokes first Single, "Under Cover of Darkness" is vintage Strokes with angular, dancing guitar lines and a stronger vocal delivery than anything on Julian Casablacas solo record.
The second pre-released track, "You're So Right"(listen here: http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/55213) finds the band channeling a sort of future mediterranean beat and an R.E.M.(the band's descrption) or mid-career Radiohead (What I picked up) vibe.
It is not their best work but gives an indication that the new Album, Angles, set for a March 21 release, will be varied and challenging.
Speaking of Radiohead, why didn't they charge me $15 for a golden shower straight into my ear?
It would have been more pleasurable than their new album "King of Limbs". At least a golden shower is warm for a second.
Better than this cold, lifeless, stillborn creation.
Would it kill you to buy a goddamn guitar? I know guitars are so low-brow but seriously...
That brings me to my other cause for excitement, one of my former great white hopes of rock roll, My Morning Jacket.
After the odd, prince influenced work on Evil Urges, they promise a return to form on their new record, Circuital.
According to Rolling Stone, the band recorded the LP in their hometown of Louisville, setting up a studio in a church gymnasium. Frontman Jim James calls the album "the most live record we've ever done." James also says, "We want people to have almost the exact opposite experience they had last time. I definitely had some goals of wanting to make this one warmer and somehow more contained and more concise of a statement."
James wrote a couple of tracks, "Wonderful" and "Out of My System", for an amazing Muppets collaboration that never came to pass. Rolling Stone writes, "An exec recruited My Morning Jacket to record music for a new version of the Electric Mayhem band (the one with Animal on drums), promising a Gorillaz-style tour where MMJ would play behind a curtain while Muppet holograms bashed away onstage. The psyched band began writing and demo'ing, but the exec got fired and the project disappeared."
According to Pitchfork.com, James also had songs rejected by Jason Segal's upcoming Muppet movie. Oh well. Their loss is our gain. Cannot wait to see the hair flying and hear the guitars wailing again soon.
I hope to review both full albums soon. See previous paragraph for my review of Radiohead.
I tried to like that shit Radiohead just put out but christ almighty is it bad. I was half hoping it would be the type of album I'd come to appreciate after a few listens but no, all it has provided me with is a viable form of torture to use on loved ones. Lots of faith and excitement for My Morning Jacket though; wasn't aware they had new stuff coming out. Here's hoping for The Strokes, sounds like they might have been best to pull a White Stripes though, we'll see.
ReplyDeleteI am much more skeptical of MMJ having a return to form than I am of the Strokes.
ReplyDeleteMMJ has definitely gone a way down the Radiohead road of trying to reinvent the wheel. Additionally, they have had an almost complete change of personnel since the heyday of "It Still Moves".
The Strokes have had 3 solid albums in a row, the last being horribly underrated, as well as putting out 3 quality solo albums.
I think their album will be somewhere between solid and spectacular...with MMJ, I am hoping but I am not sure.