The Strokes #2

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[..] In fact, only a couple of months ago Valensi was back on the campaign trail with MySpace Music, providing Strokes fans with words they've longed to hear: "There are still undertones of hostility and resentment in the band." When asked why Angles was coming out now he said: "Maybe everyone needed money or something. We gotta pay our mortgage so may as well get this going again."

http://www.guardian.co.uk(...)-angles-nick-valensi

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[..] Moretti, Hammond, Valensi, and Fraiture initially started the recording process with producer Joe Chiccarelli in January 2010. Casablancas, still tied up with promotional obligations for his solo album, Phrazes for the Young, planned to join the group after initial tracking. However, that never materialized and the band instead wound up completely reworking the Chiccarelli sessions on their own in Hammond's studio in upstate New York. Chiccarelli receives credit for only one track on Angles.

Still, Casablancas took a less hands-on approach with Angles. He recorded his vocals remotely-- at Electric Lady Studios in New York-- and sent his parts to the band as electronic files. Likewise, during the recording phase, most communication between Casablancas and the rest of the band took place via e-mail, and, according to Valensi, most of the singer's ideas and suggestions were written "in really vague terms," leaving the others without much to go on. Casablancas' literal distance was quite deliberate, and to hear the singer tell it, the strategy was something he'd hoped to do from the beginning. "When I'm there, people might wait for me to say something. I think it took me being a little mute to force the initiative."

While Casablancas' disengagement may have been by design, Valensi found the whole experience deeply dissatisfying. "I won't do the next album we make like this. No way. It was awful-- just awful. Working in a fractured way, not having a singer there. I'd show up certain days and do guitar takes by myself, just me and the engineer. Some of the third album was done that way, but at least we were on the same page about what the arrangements and parts were. Seventy-five percent of this album felt like it was done together and the rest of it was left hanging, like some of us were picking up the scraps and trying to finish a puzzle together."

Interestingly, although Casablancas and Valensi remain at odds on the merits of the process used to record Angles, both seem united in their desire to improve upon the album itself. With all members now acting as contributing songwriters, Valensi believes it could take some trial and error before the Strokes find an effective new way to establish quality control. "We're all learning to work on each other's songs and learning how to deal with emotional issues that come up in relation to the songs, when to let go and when to fight and compromise," says the guitarist. "I feel like we have a better album in us, and it's going to come out soon."

http://pitchfork.com/feat(...)ears-of-the-strokes/

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Op zondag 13 maart 2011 17:34 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
Mij net wel, hoe minder inbreng van Casablancas hoe beter.

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Op zondag 13 maart 2011 22:55 schreef Arn0 het volgende:
Ik ben verslaafd aan You're So Right

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Op maandag 14 maart 2011 00:28 schreef Assassin92 het volgende:
Luistert heerlijk weg, geen enkel slecht nummer.

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Op maandag 14 maart 2011 00:39 schreef Assassin92 het volgende:
Welke vind je slecht dan? De nummers die ik tot nu toe hoor (Two Kinds, Metabolism) vind ik zelf juist lekker minder direct. Je moet je aandacht er aan geven om de nummers door te hebben, dat wel.

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Op maandag 14 maart 2011 00:28 schreef Assassin92 het volgende:
Super album. Nouja, super, misschien niet het beste wat 2011 ons gaat brengen, maar ik zie mijzelf hier over jaren nog naar luisteren. Luistert heerlijk weg, geen enkel slecht nummer. De gehele stijl die the Strokes met die album hebben neer gezet bevalt me veel meer dan bij de vorige 2 (het eerste valt natuurlijk niet te overtreffen). Hmm, heel chill dit.

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Op maandag 14 maart 2011 01:19 schreef Arn0 het volgende:

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Two Kinds, Games, Gratisfaction, Metabolism

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Op maandag 14 maart 2011 03:35 schreef Nober het volgende:
Klinkt opzich niet slecht (de eerste drie nummers), de single vond ik al geslaagd, zal deze straks maar eens flink gaan grijs draaien, afgewisseld met Turner's Submarine EP. (Laat Giel maar lullen over de Staat en Racoon bij DWDD, ik heb geen advies nodig!)