The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
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Artist: The StrokesEdition: Music CD
Format: Deluxe Edition, 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
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Free Music Review: I love these guys
Hit: 5 Stars
The Strokes are by far my favorite band to come onto the scene in recent years. In my opinion, their songwriting is unmatched by other bands like The Killers, or The Vines, etc. Not even close.
"First Impressions Of Earth" - the band's third album - is truly a charm! I knew it was going to be excellent when I heard "Juicebox" on iTunes. I was really looking forward to its release.... and it did not disappoint. The band really seem to be developing as PLAYERS as well as songwriters. The guitar solos are weirder than before, and the arrangements are more complex. Julian's vocals are not SO masked in that weird filter the way it was on "Is This It" - showing his capabilities as a strong rock vocalist.
"You Only Live Once", "Juicebox", "Heart In A Cage", and "Razor Blade" - the first four songs on the album - are particular highlights for me. "Electricityscape" has a neat 12-string guitar part in it - the first time I've heard 12-string guitar on a Strokes song. "Killing Lies" is an example of what The Strokes do better than anyone these days - simple, strummy, strolling rock and roll. It reminds me a little of "When It Started" from their debut album. "Fear Of Sleep" is an interesting song that begins in true Strokes fashion - with choppy guitar strumming, and a lead guitar part that shadows Julian's vocals.. but then breaks with a tremelo guitar chords and Nikolai's bass runs. "Fifteen Minutes" sounds like a drinking song at first - even Julian sounds drunk... but, it then picks up into a more frenzied pace more typical of a Strokes rocker. "Ize of the World" is classic Strokes with Julian delivering a great meldoy, and nice guitar work (I think Albert takes the lead on this one). "Evening Sun" is a beautiful song with wonderfully understated instrumentation and sensitive vocals. The album closes out with "Red Light" which is a great bouncy little ditty which - like this entire album - has great hooks, guitar and bass parts and loose drumming by Fab.
If you are a Strokes fan at all, you are going to love "First Impressions Of Earth". I can't say it is "better" than "Is This It", but it's darn close. I never bought "Room On Fire" (out of fear that it could not live up to their debut release), so I can't compare it to that album.
First Impressions of Earth Poster
Japanese pressing features 14 total tracks. RCA. 2006.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 McCulley
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