The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
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Artist: The StrokesEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2006-01-03
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- You Only Live Once
- Juicebox
- Heart In A Cage
- Razorblade
- On The Other Side
- Vision Of Division
- Ask Me Anything
- Electricityscape
- Killing Lies
- Fear Of Sleep
- 15 Minutes
- Ize Of The World
- Evening Sun
- Red Light
Free Music Notes for First Impressions of Earth
Free Music Review: This is the beginning
Hit: 4 Stars
In my opinion, this is the first album, before the next album, which will be The Strokes finally coming into their own. Although I have written reviews for both the other albums and I gave "Is This It" five stars, and "Room on Fire" 3 stars, I do feel good about where this band is headed. Now that I have listened to both the other albums many many more times I realize that this album is SOO much more evolved than the other two. The songwriting is better, the arrangement is way more savvy, and the lyrics are in a totally different place, much more visionary and less adolescent. I am so confident about the next album, I am going to go ahead and give it Five Stars right off the bat. The reason this doesn't get 5 stars is just because it doesn't seem as sure of itself as it could be. There is a lot here...if you look for it. But it doesn't seem nearly as confident or complete as "Is This It." To me it still seems like they are feeling their way into a new style. Very enjoyable. And it is rumored that they are starting on the next album at the end of this year. But who knows...also, if you want to supplement your Strokes craving, go and buy Albert Hammond Jr.'s album which is totally stellar as well.
First Impressions of Earth Poster
Their prospects dangerously over-inflated by pundits who often hailed their debut as nothing short of rock-messianic, New York City's Strokes got a lesson in cynical rock-press dynamics when their biz-troubled, if similarly toned, '03 follow-up was dutifully dismissed as the proverbial sophomore slump. A lesser band might have been chastened by the experience; this one responds with a third album that positively bristles with energetic challenges. Revolving around a loose concept that allows songwriter/frontman Julian Casablancas to adopt a viewpoint that's as detached as it is world-weary and bemused, it's a record that quickly trades the often precious production conceits of its forebears for a muscular confidence that's notable from the infectious, back-to-the-'80s opener "You Only Live Once" to its perfect bookend "Red Light."That often inviting sonic remodeling may come in part from Bangles/Sublime/Sugar Ray producer David Kahne (who replaces previous collaborator Gordon Raphael on all but a handful of cuts), but the band clearly has expansiveness on its mind, from a running length nearly twice its predecessors to such stylistic excursions as the cinematic, back-to-the-future riffing of the single "Juicebox," the spare, electro-baroque moodiness of "Ask Me Anything," and the dense, surprising prog flirtations of "Electrocityscape." "On the Other Side" finds Casablancas convincingly casting himself as the anti-Bono while crooning "I hate them, I hate them all, I hate myself for hating them" before chiding humanity as "seven billion people who've got nothing to say" on the otherwise upbeat closer, "Red Light." Wrapping such cynicism in more populist musical trappings is no mean feat, and the sheer reach of the Strokes' ambitions here insure they occasionally fall short. But it's a consistently intriguing effort, one that seems calculated as much to challenge the faithful as expand the band's own considerable horizons. --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock Music CDs
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