I liked their first 5 albums, but this one is awful zoomer shit
>>130066335It's their best album
>>130066335TNA is Comedown Machine but good
totally wrong it's their best and I'm not a zoomer (I'm 20 btw)
Angles is the best
They have not made a bad album.
>>130069238you're a zoomer
>>130070021They're all bad
>>130070021This
>>130070118put me into the driver's seat of your mind fren. what makes you say that?
>>130066335it was surprisingly good considering the previous 15 years of their career.it's not great, but still their 3rd best after Is This It and Room on Fire.
>>130070023I'm in 4chan so i'm not a zoomer or normie
>>130066335The Strokes are a singles band like The Killers
>>130069238>>1300732692006/2005 is zoomer, kiddo
>>130073739OOOOOOOLDD FRIEEENDS LOOOONNG FORGAAAAATEEEEEEEN
It's honestly kind of weird having been a preteen when The Strokes first came out, and not really understanding their influences. Like, listening now I hear it through the context of the past: CBGB, The Velvet Underground, Television, various proto-punk bands. They tipped off that post-punk revival scene in the 2000s, but they really did their own thing. To the point that when I hear them, I just hear The Strokes. They weren't really larping, they just touched on the sort of outsider, rebellious energy of the scenes they nodded to. But they didn't really "sound" like a 70s band. I totally understand how a young music critic in 2001 was like "HOLY SHIT, le epic seedy garage rock swagger, leather jackets, post-punk crooning vocals, Lou Reed is back baby" and how they got caught up in that whirlwind of being the next big alternative rock band. But the exaggerated rhythmic strumming patterns, clear topline guitar melodies, the distorted vocals - that's just The Strokes. So when they move away from that, it makes you rethink what the band even is. Even just having Casablancas sing falsetto was a bold move for them. I'm honestly kind of impressed they're still able to make decent music, even if I myself don't really listen to them anymore. But my fellow millennials likely forget how long ago 2001 was, and what The Strokes really were in the context of rock music history. They wrote good songs, but represented something very specific that music fans really wanted at that time.
