“Okay, can someone please remind me why The Strokes were such a polarizing force about two years ago? Listening to *Is This It* last week had me scratching my head over how it managed to become the Roe vs. Wade of the rock crit world in 2001, with everyone forced to choose sides: "saviors of rock!" or "everything that's wrong with music today!" At the time, I found myself in the latter category, ir”
“Change is good. It can be important, even historic. It is not always necessary. One of the best things about Room on Fire, the Strokes’ second album, is that, in most of the ways that matter, it is exactly like their first. Nick Valensi’s and Albert Hammond Jr.’s dirty-treble guitars cut ’n’ thrust over the […]”
“What am I missing? I went into this album with promises of ‘Is This It 2’ and was sorely disappointed. The songs droned into each other and I found very little of interest. Glimpses of my favourite aspects of The Strokes shon through on stand out tracks but for the most part I feel betrayed. Maybe it needs another listen… Fav song : What Ever Happened?”
“Continuing Is This Is success, very decent.”
