[News] – The Strokes Reveal New Album And Live Dates
The Strokes haven’t released an album for almost 4 years now, their last being “First Impressions Of Earth” in 2006, but they’ve been speaking about that followup and playing live this summer at various festivals. I wasn’t a huge fan of “First Impressions Of Earth” with only a few standout tracks, but I really liked not only Julian Casablancas’ solo album “Phrazes For The Young” that came out last year, but also Albert Hammond Jr’s solo album “¿Cómo Te Llama?” from 2008.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, drummer Fab Moretti said that they’re planning to have their as yet untitled new album out by September:
Moretti also stated the group intend to release their four years in-the-making new album in September.
Despite reports to the contrary, the band are enjoying working together again on the follow-up to 2006’s First Impressions Of Earth.
On getting back in the studio, he told Radio 1’s Zane Lowe: “It was really good in fact. We’re friends before we are band members, so it’s not like we spend too much time away from each other. ”Coming back in and playing music together, it was like riding a bicycle.”
The band posted on their official site at the start of February that they have been working with Beck and U2 producer Joe Chiccarelli in New York. Gus Oberg is engineering the album, which they are recording at New York’s Avatar Studios.
They’ve also announced that they’ll be playing at the RockNess festival in Inverness, Scotland, alongside Doves, Fatboy Slim, Leftfield, and more. RockNess is on from June 11-13 and then they’re heading to the Isle Of Wight on the same weekend.
“I’m nervous as hell,” he said of their live return. “It’s giving me butterflies in my stomach. To be honest, I haven’t really been thinking about the old songs as we’re so into recording these new ones.
“It’s less the songs themselves and more the response from the band that I miss terribly. I’m excited.”
If their new album can have a mix of “Phrazes For The Young“, “¿Cómo Te Llama?”, and old-school Strokes (“Is This It”), I can easily see this being one of the albums of the year.
(via BBC 6)
