That goes a long way towards making Comedown Machine more immediately appealing than their last two records the Strokes sound like they’re genuinely trying here. This flipping of the script can actually be seen as a canny move, recasting the Strokes as lovable underdogs: where they once defined effortless cool, the deeply uncool Comedown Machine smacks of effort. Everything since has taken cues from styles more associated with parents’ basements, musty vinyl shops, and convention centers: dinky synth-pop, surf rock, prog and the weird science of countless 1980s New Wave bands. They got and exhausting a sound that evoked decades of New York squalor chic through indestructible songs and contradictory images: garages where Orange amps are parked next to Benzes, a trust-funder’s highrise apartment lousy with beer cans and leather jackets. This isn’t so much of a revelation as it the culmination of what’s been happening ever since. Comedown Machine is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Strokes.It was released on Main the US by RCA Records, and on March 25 through Rough Trade Records in the UK.Īccomplishes in 38 minutes what nearly a decade and a half of backlash and schadenfreude could not: make the Strokes look like total nerds.
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