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Artist News
The Strokes on new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 31 March 2009
The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas has spoken to Rolling Stone about work on the band’s next album. The magazine quote him as saying: “We have three songs. Some of the new stuff has a 70s vibe, like Thin Lizzy or Elvis Costello. But then some of it is bizarre music from the future that we’re trying to tone down to sound catchy. So we’re trapped between the future and the 70s”.
He adds that the band are getting a bit more grown up about resolving their issues in the studio: “We didn’t used to be honest – there would always be mini feuds over stupid shit. Now, if Nick [Valensi] and Fab [Moretti] or anyone are saying they like it fast or slow, we’ll talk about it, as opposed to saying, ‘Well, I never liked your sister'”.
Meanwhile, the band’s manager Ryan Gentles has written an email to fans with an update on how that fourth album is progressing: “No recording studio time has been booked yet, as they sketch out the blueprints of new songs and fine-tune plans in their rehearsal space, but it will undoubtedly be all mapped out and etched in stone at some point in the not-too-distant future. I wish I could tell you that this definitely meant we can expect an album release date before the end of 2009, but it’s just too soon to speculate on that for sure yet. One way or another… suffice to say, the work has begun!”
