The Strokes: Angles

"With 'Angles,' their first album in five years, the Strokes are embracing a new equilibrium, one that weighs each member’s voice more equally. ... The result is an album with 10 highly worked-over songs that are identifiably the Strokes — those counterpoint guitar riffs, Mr. Casablancas’s dyspeptic vocals, with their late-night energy and lyrical self-doubt, a few synths and downbeats for modern measure — but with a distinction. For the first time the material was written not just by Mr. Casablancas, who was absent by design, but by all the members. And it was recorded not in a studio in New York City but in a bucolic setting upstate. They’re not the mature Strokes, exactly — 'If I say that,' said Albert Hammond Jr., the rhythm guitarist, 'it almost sounds so boring, doesn’t it?' — but they’re close. Whatever they are, an audience seems ready. The band has sold out headlining dates at Madison Square Garden" (Melena Ryzik, "Different Strokes," New York Times, 3/13/11).
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