The Strokes - Is This It (2001) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

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The Strokes - Is This It (2001) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Released: 2001
Duration: 35:45
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Indie Rock
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 3,000 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 24
Sample Rate: 96,000 Hz

01 Is This It 2:35
02 The Modern Age 3:32
03 Soma 2:37
04 Barely Legal 3:58
05 Someday 3:07
06 Alone, Together 3:12
07 Last Nite 3:17
08 Hard To Explain 3:47
09 New York City Cops 3:36
10 Trying Your Luck 3:27
11 Take It Or Leave It 3:16

Blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype from the British press, the Strokes prove to be one of the few groups deserving of their glowing reviews. Granted, their high-fashion appeal and faultless influences -- Television, the Stooges, and especially Lou Reed and the Velvets -- have critics darlings written all over them. But like the similarly lauded Elastica and Supergrass before them, the Strokes dont rehash the sounds that inspire them -- they remake them in their own image. On the Modern Age EP, singles like Hard to Explain, and their full-length debut, Is This It, the N.Y.C. group presents a pop-inflected, second-generation take on late-70s New York punk, complete with raw, world-weary vocals, spiky guitars, and an insistently chugging backbeat. However, their songs also reflected their own early-twenties lust for life; singer/songwriter/guitarist Julian Casablancas and the rest of the band mix swaggering self-assurance with barely concealed insecurity on The Modern Age and reveal something akin to earnestness on Barely Legal -- a phrase that could apply to the Strokes themselves -- in the songs soaring choruses. The group revamps Lust for Life on New York City Cops and combines their raw power and infectious melodies on Hard to Explain, arguably the finest song theyve written in their career. Nearly half of Is This It consists of their previously released material, but thats not really a disappointment since those songs are so strong. What makes their debut impressive, however, is that the new material more than holds its own with the tried-and-true songs. Is This It sets the joys of being young, jaded, and yearning to a wonderfully bouncy bassline; Alone Together and Trying Your Luck develop the groups brooding, coming-down side, while Soma, Someday, and Take It or Leave It capture the Strokes at their most sneeringly exuberant. Able to make the timeworn themes of sex, drugs, and rock roll and the basic guitars-drum-bass lineup seem new and vital again, the Strokes may or may not be completely arty and calculated, but that doesnt prevent Is This It from being an exciting, compulsively listenable debut. [In light of the World Trade Center disaster, the track New York City Cops was pulled from the U.S. release].

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