The Strokes - The New Abnormal (April 10, 2020) Album • Page 12

I love this whole thing, but I am particularly obsessed with track 1.

 

I somehow only just got into the Strokes a few months ago and it feels like the perfect time lol. Spent months playing Is This It and Room on Fire on loop, reading “Meet Me in the Bathroom” right now, and the new album is just incredible.

The one thing that stands out to me as a new fan is Julian Casablancas’s charisma as a vocalist. He manages to sound completely exhausted and still cool as fuck. And his vocals on the new album are his best IMO.

 

GOAT Julian falsetto vocals is the end of Instant Crush

aka one of the best pop songs ever

 

I saw him play it with the Voidz one time and he did that falsetto part at the end as well as after the chorus which was sick

 

Shit it didn't even occur to me that he would play that song at Voidz shows, that's dope

 

Been listening to this almost every day. Good stuff.

 

Ode to the Mets is kick in the gut.

 

That buildup to “Pardon the silence that you're hearing is turning into a deafening, painful, shameful roar” is one of my favorite album-ending moments since 59 Sound’s “Backseat”.

 

comedown machine > room on fire > is this it > new abnormal > first impressions of earth = angles

 

I’m here for comedown machine but I’m also here for angles so

 

Learned how to play One Way Trigger on guitar today and it’s so fun

 

one of my faves

 

can't get over "Ode to the Mets"

Julian is spittin fr

 

I guess they have a podcast thing now? Watched the first episode and they’re all pretty awkward. Half the band didn’t know 50/50 haha

 

lmao at nick playing the wrong song.

 

Love this album. I’ve been listening to it all weekend.

 

Really starting to think this might be their best album. Even though the first two are "indelible" I think years from now this one will leave its own mark, just given how good it is, especially amid the crazy fucking circumstances of right now.

 

I love this album but my favorites of theirs are the last 2 albums - which apparently is not an opinion shared by most Strokes fans. Idc tho bc those albums rule.

 

my wife straight up ruined this album for me. its literally the only thing she listens to and im so sick of it :(

 

I’m on a huge Strokes kick and this album is top notch.

 

This is now my second favorite Strokes album.

 

Just listened to this for the first time and really enjoyed it.

 

It’s really fucking good

 

My girlfriend and I were supposed to be seeing them at Primavera Fest next week (seeing them together there being pretty special as we've both never been and seeing The Strokes was our first show together), so I made a playlist of what I think the setlist could realistically look like for a current tour:

The Tour Abnormal:

The Adults Are Talking
The Modern Age
12:51
Bad Decisions
Under Cover of Darkness
Someday
Heart in a Cage
New York City Cops
Meet Me in the Bathroom
Brooklyn Bridge to Chorus
Razorblade
Reptilia
Selfless
Juicebox
Last Nite

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Is This It
Ode to the Mets
Hard to Explain