Julian Casablancas Updates Fans On Strokes Album Progress
October 12th, 2009
The frontman told XFM that the band have been working on material for the new album for months, “we have most of the songs written, more than half of them written. But it’s just a question of getting all five dudes in the room. I’m ready to do it. We’re supposed to have done it already but it got pushed back.”
When asked what the album would sound like Casablancas said it was too early to tell but added, “I have my own personal wish that it would sound like Thin Lizzy, but if they could peer into the future and kind of have eighties melodies. Like a super-tight late seventies rock band but with A-Ha moments, if that makes sense.”
Julian Casablancas
He continued, “The Strokes is a tough musical jury, so if something is going to survive it’s got to pretty much please five incredibly picky dudes. That’s the great thing about the band but on the other hand sometimes it can be stifling for certain parts. You might have a vision for a part but you can’t express what you want to look like in its final state. And it’s hard to even get to the final state because before it works, people are like ‘I don’t like it’, so it’s hard to work an idea through when people are fighting you.”
Casablancas stopped by the U.K. radio station to promote his forthcoming solo debut album, ‘Phrazes For The Young‘, due out November 3.
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