New album featuring "All The Time" and "One Way Trigger"
Full album download code included
4 Stars — Q Magazine
The highly anticipated fifth studio album from the New York alt-rock band. Features the first single "All The Time." The Strokes consist of Julian Casablancas (lead vocals), Nick Valensi (guitar), Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar), Nikolai Fraiture (bass) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums).The band has released four studio albums, Is This it (2001), Room on Fire (2003), First Impressions of Earth (2006) and Angles (2011) which have sold more than five million albums worldwide.
"Listen to 'Call it Fate, Call it Karma' — the final song on the Strokes new album, Comedown Machine (RCA) — and it sounds planets removed from the leather-jacketed band of New York City upstarts that made 'Is This It' in 2001. The new track is a moody soul-lounge ballad, with Julian Casablancas crooning in falsetto over a gently undulating guitar; back in the ‘50s they might have called this something like 'space-age bachelor pad music' or 'E-Z Listening.'
In any case, it's perversely enchanting, even if it has nothing to do with the guitar churn and driving subway-train rhythms that made the Strokes sound like the heirs to the Velvet Underground-New York Dolls-Feelies sound. Its strangeness isn't necessarily a bad thing: growth, evolution, experimentation — these are virtues that can keep a band relevant as it enters its second decade." — The Chicago Tribune
Track Listing
Side 1
Tap Out
All the Time
One Way Trigger
Welcome to Japan
80’s Comedown Machine
Side 2
50/50
Slow Animals
Partners in Crime
Chances
Happy Ending
Call It Fate, Call It Karma