It’s official folks!The Strokes are back and have put out official details of their comeback fourth album. Entitled Angles, the first single is set to be called ‘Undercover Of Darkness’. It’ll be out in the UK on March 21st, the US on March 22nd, and no doubt leaking by the end of February. Critics with advance copies are calling it the band’s best effort since their seminal debut Is This It? After taking time out to make solo albums, the band’s first album in almost five years saw them take a democratic approach which they insist has paid off in spades.
It’s a completely combined effort according to guitarist Nick Valensi, “The vision was everyone’s — we all contributed ideas — but the genesis of the songs was his,” he reckons. “This is the first one where we are truly working democratically. It’s taken a long time because this is a new model for us.” After initial sessions were scrapped with producer Joe Chiccharelli, they reconvened at guitarist Albert Hammond Jr’s upstate New York farm to re-record songs and play around with mixes.
