The Strokes: Is that all, guys?
By Luis Paz. Culture & Entertainment - Pagina 12, March 30, 2011 .- When The Strokes came up with Is This It and validation grand plan in 2001, New York took time sharing with Boston, Seattle, California and the United Kingdom where alternative music that had earned him The Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Television, the Ramones and Blondie, at other times. The quintet was led advanced, loud but mostly New York, and it was based much of its iconic nature. But in the five-year break was taken from his latest album, came through that door The Rapture, Vampire Weekend and MGMT. New York and went there with the Strokes. The difficulty of hitting that has its recent fourth album, Angles , then arises that a proposal is structurally stroke, which as such is no longer surprising, erected with the patina semipsicodélica, semiilustrada semibailable and the last known bands New York, so neither. But, well, the Strokes and had a fairly fresh appearance interpretive and compositional dignity in Is This It and Room On Fire then , and is somewhat exaggerated ask the same thing Angles, a record made by a band spray, which was coordinated disowned Casablancas, and for six years since I went to school. Anyway, this book has lucid moments of groove and melody, where the band comes less epic untimely existentialism ("You were taken for a fool all your life") and ethical ("Living in an empty world") that voice sample. Angles is, however, a record of progress, even when the attempt fall short as well as update change of address. Julian had stirred in him and for him and for others, the conflict in jumping from the margins to the VIP of a pretentious NYC where fame but no fortune gives heartburn, "but making an effort as a singer who brings some emotion to music otherwise very mechanical. Above, with so much distortion, just like a cyborg vocals and tone of their letters faded reaches new levels for a person of 33 years who had five of the Strokes vacation.
Angles In individual dignity is more than a great achievement group: Nick Valensi still keeping their melodic riffs responsibility, Fab Moretti to maximize their ability to emulate a drum machine, Nikolai Fraiture continues to coordinate the rhythm from a bass boost and a small game, and Albert Hammond Jr., although disk disk has come to decorate more than to shake the foundations, is a good worker. In that plan happen these ten pieces, including the wave "When the shaking stops" opening "Machu Picchu", the spectral guitars "Under Cover Of Darkness", the martial "Two Kinds Of Happiness" and "Games" that seems soundtrack for electronic parties suicide. Or the New York excess enjoyable is "Gratisfaction", a short walk from Broadway to the Soho and Brooklyn, just becoming apparent some musical complacency in that city.
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