Strokes: Is This It

Title: Is This It
Artist: Strokes
Label: RCA
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 078636810126
Genre: Alternative Rock

Clocking in at 36 minutes, Is This It? packs it's perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are Last Nite with it's insistent motown backbeat and choppy johnny thunders-like guitar solo, Barely Legal, sounding like 1980s-era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly Someday with it's hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break-up. While frontman Julian Casablancas drawls like Lou Reed through a busted intercom, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud as their sinewy chords intertwine to great effect on the angular The Modern Age and equally neurotic Alone, Together.

Tracks:
1.1 Is This It
1.2 The Modern Age
1.3 Soma
1.4 Barely Legal
1.5 Someday
1.6 Alone Together
1.7 Last Nite
1.8 Hard to Explain
1.9 New York City Cops
1.10 Trying Your Luck
1.11 Take It or Leave It

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