Latest single from the Strokes is offered as a prelude to their album
Room On Fire coming out later this month. It’s a curiously low-key affair
with Julian Casablanca's vocals well down in the mix and it’s inconsequential
lyrically and musically – the organ-like guitar just follows/leads the vocals
and a short song at two and a half minutes.But it is catchy as hell
and has the same distorted vocal sound and the choppy backing guitar rhythms
as before on ‘Is This It’. It’s the sort of song that catches you unawares
and you find yourself humming it to yourself at other times of the day –
a sneaky trick to play. It won’t gain any new converts but will make
existing fans happy. No real clues as to how the new album is going to sound.
It’s just another helping of The Strokes and that can’t be a bad thing, can it?
