The day I first heard the new Strokes single = the day I decided I must be in Spain for Benicassim Festival.

^:awesome:

You should listen to some more!

Try 'Someday', 'Last Night' and 'You Only Live Once'. They're my favourites :P

 

HARD TO EXPLAIN AND BARELY LEGAL :heart:

 

It's bit average, but I rather like it.

 

It's not like an epic groundbreaking song or anything, but after all these years, I was really scared that this album might be totally different, which I didn't want. I'm just ecstatic to know that this new album is going to be more of The Strokes that we've loved all these years. I usually hate when an artist drastically changes its style, especially when the band is an iconic American band with one of the best styles America has ever heard.

 

Not sure if any of that makes sense...

it does!

 

hope you can go to Benicassim

I hope everyone gets to see them live :awesome:

If/when they announce a Toronto date I am gonna be all over those tickets.

http://www.juliancasablancas.com/news/

Album art!

It's weird.....but I like it.

It's trippy and it seems like the kind of lame retro thing Julian would love.

Yeahhhh, I'm not really a fan of the album art, but :shrug:. I feel like album art can only add to a record, not take away from it, so I'm not really bothered.

 

My retinas are, though :sick:

 

A never ending staircase...interesting.

I like that it looks like some cheesy 80s style artwork. The Strokes have always been kind of "retro" in a way so this cover is almost unsurprising to me.

I think it's the colors that get me the most, and the contrast of the checkerboard. It's just...loud. I get tired of looking at it quickly. It's probably meant ironically, and whatever floats their boat, of course, but the more I see it the more I don't like it. It just brings to mind the trendy hipster bands that I don't get the big deal over rather than something more classic looking, like I think their other album covers are. I look at that and think Wavves, not Strokes.

 

But like I say, I think album art can only help an album, not harm it. It's the music that matters. I just won't be hanging a poster of this on my wall, haha.

This song could be better.

I think the fans are more excited for The Strokes coming back and are getting that confused with the quality of the song.

If this song is any indication of what the rest of the album is gonna be like ............................................................................. :sick:

 

Not to say it has horrible! It just wasn't A+

more like C... C-

 

This. I found the song disappointing, especially the chorus :sick:

 

I still can't get enough of their old stuff though :bomb: !

This song could be better.

I think the fans are more excited for The Strokes coming back and are getting that confused with the quality of the song.

If this song is any indication of what the rest of the album is gonna be like ............................................................................. :sick:

 

Not to say it has horrible! It just wasn't A+

more like C... C-

 

Certainly not in my case. I actually hated the 30 second preview and thought 'oh dear this album is going to suck'. My opinion has nothing to do with my excitement really. I wasn't even too excited for the album until I heard this song actually.

Not a fan of the song or the album artwork. Still looking forward to the album.

I still wish they had used one of these :(

 

 

 

Don't we all :(

I love the new song and no it's not cos of the hype&excitement, I just genuenly really like it. It makes me all happy and makes me want to dance around and stuff. I think it sounds like summer :wacky: I hate hate hate the album artwork though, I was really hoping that it was another joke but nooope...It's just...tacky imo it has nothing interesting or doesn't look good or anything, to me it just looks like something that a kid could've drawn in math class at the age of 12 or smthing..but that's just what I think of it ofc and I agree with Chels that it's the music that matters but mehh the cover just annoys me :P

 

Everything about this post :D :D

 

I feel like I have an inordinate amount of love for the single and an inordinate amount of hate for the artwork. But there's something about the song that just really grabs me. It beat all my expectations, which were high to begin with.

 

Oh, and NEW SONG ON TUESDAY! :dance: Albert said it was another song off Angles, but I'm not entirely sure if that means it's going to be one of the nine other songs on the actual album or if it's going to be a previously-mentioned B-side, like "Radio Minor Madness." I'm hoping for the latter.

A b-side would be nice. They don't really have any b-sides, at least not ones that are polished songs.

New York April 1st. Madison Square Garden. On sale to public February 25th. See you there!

Straight from Julian's twitter. First post-album tour date! :D

Sometimes I seriously wish I lived next to MSG. :disappointed:

^ Tell me about it ! :disappointed:

I was really bitter about the MSG date last night, because I fly home to NYC a measly week after the show. But I'm seeing them at Coachella a few weeks after that...and I have a feeling the ticket sales are going to be an absolute shitshow. I remembered how notoriously suckish it is to try and get good seats, or seats at all, for a popular band in an iconic venue. Anyway, that's me making myself feel better about missing their homecoming gig :P

http://www.nme.com/news/the-strokes/55058

 

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Band releasing song from new album as a B-side

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The Strokes are releasing a song from their forthcoming new album ‘Angles’, as the B-side to new single ‘Under Cover Of Darkness’.

 

According to the band's official website Thestrokes.com, ‘You’re So Right’ will be made available on March 1 in the US as the B-Side to the single, but only on seven-inch vinyl format.

 

The vinyl single is set to be released on April 16 in the UK, for Record Store Day.

 

'Angles' will be released in the UK on March 21, while 'Under Cover Of Darkness' has already been released as a free download. The band are expected to tour Europe in July.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_w-YyJbfY]YouTube - The Strokes - Making of Angles: EP1[/ame]

 

The first part of the making of Angles re-edited by Ryan. He says there are three parts total: the second to be released next week and the third the week after that. You can hear little bits of a couple of the new songs :)

Alberts going bald.

^ Um. :thinking:

 

 

Fab is adorable in this!

It'sAlmostMarchNotMuchLongerNow. :dance: :dance:

I agree Jackie :awesome:

And yeah I'm so excited:wacky: