O site
caiu minutos antes de a música ser disponibilizada,
mas já pode ser escutada em outros sites.
A rádio BBC também tocou a música
ao vivo no programa de Zane Lowe, com o guitarrista Albert
Hammond
Jr. falando sobre o retorno oficial da banda.
A nova
música mostra a mesma energia da banda que
pode ser vista nos primeiros discos, com riffs e um solos
marcantes, com vocais menos sujos de Julian Casablancas e
uma atmosfera mais "feliz".
Os integrantes
da banda Strokes, que lançou música
nova, a primeira em seis anos
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A primeira
resenha do single, publicada pela revista "Rolling
Stone" americana, diz que a banda fez "a mesma
música de sempre, polida para uma nova era".
O single
faz parte do esperado novo álbum da banda, "Angles",
que sairá no dia 22 de março pela gravadora
RCA nos Estados Unidos e pela Rough Trade no Reino Unido.
No Brasil, a banda é distribuída pela Sony.
Julian Casablancas
of The Strokes being stylish
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"Angles" será o primeiro disco da banda
em seis anos. O último foi "First Impressions
of Earth", de 2006.
História
Os Strokes ganharam fãs desde o primeiro álbum, "Is
This It" (2001), e se consagrou uma das grandes bandas
dos anos 2000 com "Room On Fire", de 2003.
Em 2007, a banda entrou em hiato e seus integrantes seguiram
com projetos solo.
O baterista brasileiro Fabrizio Moretti formou
a banda Little Joy com Rodrigo Amarante, do Los Hermanos,
e lançou
disco homônimo em 2008.
Em 2009, o vocalista Julian Casablancas lançou o álbum "Phrazes
for the Young", que surpreendeu os fãs por ter
sintetizadores.
O baixista Nikolai Fraiture seguiu com o
nome Nickel Eye e lançou o álbum "The Time of the Assassins",
em 2009, enquanto o guitarrista Albert Hammond Jr. lançou
dois álbuns ("Yours to Keep", em 2006, e "Cómo
Te Llama", em 2008). Já o outro guitarrista,
Nick Valensi, seguiu tocando em álbuns de amigos,
como Regina Spektor, Devendra Banhart e Sia.
No ano passado, a banda voltou à ativa
e tocou em alguns festivais, como Isle of Wight, Lollapalooza
e Rockness.
Biography
Equally
inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly and John
Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs
of
fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground,
the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with
an enormous amount of hype — particularly from the U.K.
music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their
fervor for Oasis in the early '90s. Barely in their twenties...
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Equally inspired by classic tunesmiths like Buddy Holly
and John Lennon as well as the attitude and angular riffs
of
fellow New Yorkers Television and the Velvet Underground,
the Strokes were also equally blessed and cursed with an
enormous amount of hype — particularly from the U.K.
music press, whose adulation for the group rivaled their
fervor for Oasis in the early '90s. Barely in their twenties
by the time their debut album, Is This It, arrived in 2001,
singer/songwriter Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi
and Albert Hammond, Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer
Fabrizio Moretti's success wasn't quite of the overnight
variety, but it still arrived pretty swiftly.
Casablancas (the son of Elite Model Agency
Group kingpin John Casablancas), Moretti (who began playing
drums at age
five), and Valensi started playing together in 1998 while
they attended the Dwight School, a private prep school in
Manhattan. Soon thereafter they met Fraiture, who attended
the Upper East Side's Lycee Français, and added him
to their ranks. Hammond (the son of singer/songwriter Albert
Hammond, whose songs include "It Never Rains in Southern
California," "When I Need You," and "To
All the Girls I've Loved Before") came from Los Angeles
to attend film school at NYU and was invited into the band
by Casablancas; the two met at L'Institut le Rosey in Switzerland
when they were kids.
Casablancas officially christened the quintet the Strokes
in 1999, and the group spent most of that year writing and
rehearsing material in New York City's Music Building. They
made their live debut that fall at the Spiral, and word of
mouth about the Strokes' incendiary live show propelled them
to gigs at venues like Under the Acme, Lower East Side clubs
such as Arlene Grocery, Baby Jupiter, and Luna. The Strokes'
December 2000 dates at the Mercury Lounge and the Bowery
Ballroom not only gained them a manager (Ryan Gentles, who
booked them at those clubs), but also helped Strokes mania
reach critical mass in New York. Rough Trade released the
group's three-song demo as The Modern Age EP in January 2001,
which sparked a bidding war from which RCA emerged as the
victors.
Meanwhile, the Strokes' acclaim reached the U.K. and grew
to massive proportions over the course of the year. NME quickly
became their champions, profiling them several times that
spring and summer as the Strokes' live act and singles like
Hard to Explain (which debuted at number 16 in the U.K. charts)
won them a rabid British following. That spring, the band
also completed its first U.S. tour as the opening act for
the Doves and proceeded to play dates with Guided by Voices
and ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead in the U.S.
and the U.K. The group's popularity continued to snowball
in the U.K., with a side-stage slot at the NME Carling Weekender
changed to a main-stage performance for fear of people trampling
each other to see the band.
Julian
Casablancas of The Strokes being stylish
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In late summer of that year, Rough Trade
released Is This It with an album cover featuring a sexy,
Helmut Newton-esque
photo of a woman's nude behind and hip with a leather-gloved
hand resting on it; the U.K. chains Woolworth's and HMV objected
to its controversial nature. The U.S. version of Is This
It was released in October and featured a few changes from
the U.K. edition. The Strokes opted for an abstract pattern
on the cover and removed the song "New York City Cops," feeling
the song was inappropriate in the wake of the terrorist attacks
that struck New York prior to the album's release; the planned
B-side, "When It Started," took its place. The
group closed out the fall with an extended tour of the U.S.,
culminating with a Halloween gig at New York's Hammerstein
Ballroom.
The remainder of 2001 and 2002 saw the group's
profile continue to rise. Is This It and the Strokes were
lauded in many ways,
ranging from This Isn't It, an EP of instrumental versions
of some of the album's songs performed by a mystery band
called the Diff'rent Strokes (Pulp's Jarvis Cocker was rumored
to be a member) to 2001 NME Carling Awards for Best New Act,
Band of the Year, and Album of the Year. The band toured
extensively throughout 2002, including a series of dates
that summer in New York and Detroit with the White Stripes,
summer festivals at Reading and Leeds, and a string of gigs
supporting Weezer, some of which were canceled due to a leg
injury Casablancas suffered. During these shows, their fall
tour, and their dates opening for the Rolling Stones, the
Strokes debuted some new songs, including "Meet Me in
the Bathroom," "You Talk Way Too Much," and "The
Way It Is."
By March 2003, the band was ready to start recording its
new album, but instead of working with Is This It producer
Gordon Raphael as previously reported, the Strokes began
recording with Nigel Godrich of Radiohead and Beck fame.
That May, however, the Strokes' sessions with Godrich came
to an end, and they returned to Raphael to finish the album,
Room on Fire. The single 12:51 introduced the more meticulous,
new wave-inspired sound of Room on Fire, which arrived in
fall 2003. Just before the album's release, the Strokes hit
the road once again, taking Kings of Leon with them. Early
in 2006, they returned with the even poppier and more polished
First Impressions of Earth. The band took a hiatus after
the tour for that album, with each member working on other
projects. Albert Hammond, Jr. was the first to venture into
the solo fray with Yours to Keep, which was released in late
2006 in the U.K. and in early 2007 in the U.S.; he followed
it with 2008's Como Te Llama?. Fabrizio Moretti played with
the indie pop band Little Joy, whose self-titled album arrived
in late 2008. Nikolai Fraiture embarked on the folky solo
project Nickel Eye, and released the debut Time of the Assassins
in early 2009. Later that year, the Strokes announced they
were heading back into the studio; that summer came news
of Julian Casablancas' own solo album, Phrazes for the Young,
which arrived in fall 2009.
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