The terminal question about The Strokes that is asked repeatedly ever since Room on Fire is whether they are just a band who suffered too much hype, encouraged a resurgence of indie guitar music in the mid 00s nonetheless and then collapsed in a pool of their own image-too-chilled out-to-even-care musical undoing. Every flipping article seems to start with a mighty great pretext and sets The Strokes up for a fall. So I won’t, only so far as mentioning it.
For five years since their last outing, First Impressions of Earth has brought a new day and many new dawns have since passed. The Strokes know that more than anyone, right?
And their new single was officially put online this week. ‘Under Cover Of Darkness’ is a characteristically jangly number, swaggering along with Julian Casablancas’ slurring, an inoffensive solo and catchy rhythm. It will be interesting to see how the band step out from life as solo artists (…well at least for Casablancas and Albert Hammond Jr.) and regain the attitude, character and energy of life as one of the world’s biggest straight indie rock ‘n’ roll groups. An album, Angles, is in the pipeline for March we are told.
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