The Strokes

The Strokes bring you their highly anticipated fourth album, ANGLES, via RCA Records featuring the first single, Under Cover of Darkness. ANGLES is the bands first new release since 2006s FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH and marks the ambition of that album with the immediacy of the bands earlier albums IS THIS IT (2001) and ROOM ON FIRE (2003).

The Strokes Angles Track Listing:

1.  Machu Picchu
2.  Under Cover of Darkness
3.  Two Kinds of Happiness
4.  You’re So Right
5.  Taken For A Fool
6.  Games
7.  Call Me Back
8.  Gratisfaction
9.  Metabolism
10. Life Is Simple In The Moonlight

The Strokes First Impressions of Earth on LP

Their prospects dangerously over-inflated by pundits who often hailed their debut as nothing short of rock-messianic, New York City's Strokes got a lesson in cynical rock-press dynamics when their biz-troubled, if similarly toned, 2003 sophomore set was dutifully dismissed as the proverbial sophomore slump. A lesser band might have been chastened by the experience; this one responded with a third album that positively bristles with energetic challenges. Revolving around a loose concept that allows songwriter/frontman Julian Casablancas to adopt a viewpoint that's as detached as it is world-weary and bemused, it's a record that quickly trades the often precious production conceits of its forebears for a muscular confidence that's notable from the infectious, back-to-the-80s opener 'You Only Live Once' to its perfect bookend 'Red Light.'

That often inviting sonic remodeling may come in part from Bangles/Sublime/Sugar Ray producer David Kahne (who replaces previous collaborator Gordon Raphael on all but a handful of cuts), but the band clearly has expansiveness on its mind, from a running length nearly twice its predecessors to such stylistic excursions as the cinematic, back-to-the-future riffing of the single 'Juicebox,' the spare, electro-baroque moodiness of 'Ask Me Anything,' and the dense, surprising prog flirtations of 'Electrocityscape.' 'On the Other Side' finds Casablancas convincingly casting himself as the anti-Bono while crooning 'I hate them, I hate them all, I hate myself for hating them' before chiding humanity as 'seven billion people who've got nothing to say' on the otherwise upbeat closer, 'Red Light.' 

The Strokes First Impressions of Earth Track Listing:

1. You Only Live Once      
2. Juicebox      
3. Heart In A Cage      
4. Razorblade      
5. On The Other Side      
6. Vision Of Division      
7. Ask Me Anything      
8. Electricityscape      
9. Killing Lies      
10. Fear Of Sleep      
11. 15 Minutes      
12. Ize Of The World      
13. Evening Sun      
14. Red Light      

Limited red colored vinyl. The American rock band's critically acclaimed debut studio album. Building on their 2001 EP 'The Modern Age', the band members moulded compositions largely through live takes during recording sessions, while songwriter and lead singer Julian Casablancas continued to detail the lives and relationships of urban youth. Three singles were released from the album: 'Hard to Explain'/'New York City Cops', 'Last Nite', and 'Someday'. Now available on red vinyl. And audiences alike were blown away by the gargantuan success of the 2001 debut-album of this New York quintet, and we're still recovering from the aftershock ten+ years later.

• 1 Is This It
• 2 The Modern Age
• 3 Soma
• 4 Barely Legal
• 5 Someday
• 6 Alone, Together
• 7 Last Nite
• 8 Hard to Explain
• 9 New York City Cops
• 10 Trying Your Luck
• 11 Take It or Leave It

Is This It, the landmark debut from the Strokes, kickstarted a garage-rock revolution that defined American music from 2001 through 2005. Featuring taut rhythms, frentic tempos, scruffy grooves, melodic hooks, cool-toned vocals, choppy riffs, backstreet attitude, and twitchy arrangements that equally reference Motown, American punk, new wave, and funk, the album is a watershed document that takes off on the influences of James Brown, Television, and the Yardbirds and creates something entirely fresh, new, and irresistible. The Platinum-certified effort is home to the name-making singles "Hard to Explain," "Last Nite" and "Someday."

1. Is This It
2. The Modern Age
3. Soma
4. Barely Legal
5. Someday
6. Alone, Together
7. Last Nite
8. Hard To Explain
9. New York City Cops
10. Trying Your Luck
11. Take It Or Leave It

The follow-up recording to the group's insanely popular debut recording Is This It, Room On Fire proves to be a worthy addition to the band's catalog. Released a full two years after their debut, The Strokes are back and sound very determined to live up to the expectations for this new release. Although not drastically different from Is This It (at least on the surface), the songs expand upon previous bases and suggest that the band is continuing to grow musically, fighting against tendencies and exploring.

      1.   What Ever Happened?  - 2:54
      2.   Reptilia  - 3:41
      3.   Automatic Stop  - 3:26
      4.   12:51  - 2:33
      5.   You Talk Way Too Much  - 3:04
      6.   Between Love & Hate  - 3:15
      7.   Meet Me in the Bathroom  - 2:57
      8.   Under Control  - 3:06
      9.   The Way It Is  - 2:22
    10.   The End Has No End  - 3:07
    11.   I Can't Win  - 2:34

2021 Grammy Award-Winner for Best Rock Album!

First Full-Length Studio Release In Seven Years features Production by Rick Rubin and Cover Artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat!

Introduced by lead single "At The Door," - which Billboard says, "finds the band that made its reputation on a dirt-caked amalgam of grunge, punk and new wave in a contemplative mood...over chiming waves of synths..." - The New Abnormal is the long awaited new album from The Strokes, and the band's first full-length studio release in seven years. The Strokes' sixth LP overall following 2013's Comedown Machine was recorded at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California, with producer Rick Rubin. The album's cover artwork is a painting called Bird on Money, by famed artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. 180g vinyl LP in clear APET slipcase, and clear cling wrap with type. Printed album art, printed inner sleeve and 24" x 36" poster.

1. The Adults Are Talking
2. Selfless
3. Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus
4. Bad Decisions
5. Eternal Summer
6. At The Door
7. Why Are Sundays So Depressing
8. Not The Same Anymore
9. Ode To The Mets