Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised at that album on first listen. It was more cohesive than the very up-and-down Angles album, and they seemed to not take themselves so seriously. But the album really dropped off toward the end. It's a departure from their typical sound, although it doesn't always work out. "All The Time" is the only song that sounds like it could be taken from a previous Strokes album, while the rest seems more in line with Casablancas's solo album.
Been a while since I posted in here. A few albums I've been really loving this year is the Autre Ne Veut, Phosphorescent, Atoms for Peace and Local Natives (which took a while to grow one me). The Phoenix album is a big disappointment (although it is decent) considering how great Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix was. The Young Lagoon was a let down, but I may be starting to come around to it. I really liked the Bonobo album at first, but it's not really holding up after successive listens. Have been listening to the White Fence and Still Corners this week and both are pretty effin' rad.
