Just in time for the release of Phrazes for the Young, the debut solo album by Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas, NME takes an anti-nostalgic look back at the Strokes’ unpunctuated debut album, Is This It.
In its evaluation of the alleged NYC garage-rock hipsters/Drew Barrymore daters, the sassy Brit rock mag reminds readers that “it’s OK to not like The Strokes. Hell, in a sane world they’d have been flayed years ago, so let’s have some indie revisionism and set the record straight.”
Thank goodness.
NME’s delightfully grumpy take, here.
The scoop on Casablancas’s upcoming box set, here. (Necessary? Mmm…Maybe not.)
In our opinion, the Strokes’ attempts to ape Television’s disaffected cool hit closer to the dead-eyed beat of a bad trip with the Velvet Underground.
The band took pains carefully crafting its we-don’t-care image, but in the end the boys seemed truly uninterested in the one thing that should’ve concerned them: the music. (This might explain why we can’t quite work up the enthusiasm to sit through another of the band members’ solo efforts…)
Listen: Julian Casablancas-Phrazes for the Young
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