Word: casablancasã
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...point (at least not in America), the Strokes have managed to bypass fame, fortune and selling out without collecting their $200 and have instead skipped straight to the requisite hedonism that accompanies rock ’n roll superstardom. In spite of their new-money pedigrees (lead singer Julian Casablancas?? father is the founder of the Elite model empire; guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father wrote “It Never Rains in Southern California;” Casablancas, drummer Fabrizio Moretti and guitarist Nick Valensi all attended Dwight prep school in New York City...
...talent for creating seductive guitar hooks, while “Barely Legal” perfectly delivers the seemingly anthemic lines, “Well like my sister [I] don’t give a fuck / I wanna steal your innocence.” The album is also masterfully produced. Casablancas?? lo-fi crooning forms a fabulous contrast to the clear guitars in “Modern Age” and the precise, repetitive (so much so that it sounds like a skipping CD) background chorus strumming on “Last Nite.” The band also...
...sold-out crowd. After listening to their EP The Modern Age, the advance international relase of Is This It and then finally seeing them in flesh, it is clear that the Strokes are a live outfit. Their studio-recorded songs attempt to recreate the immediacy and anguish of Julian Casablancas?? vocals, the tight guitar riffs of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi, the bouncy bass of Nikolai Fraiture and the aggressive drumming of Fabrizio Moretti. Even the band members’ names have a novel quality and are strangely fatalistic, as if they had already been written into...