You know what... this IS the Strokes' best record. Its truly baffling how good all of these songs are - and it feels like a celebration of their entire discography. You can get hints of FIOE in All the Time, Angles in One Way Trigger, Is This It in 50/50, and entirely new flavours in songs like Welcome to Japan and Tap Out.
Like... yeah, just a shockingly good album.
8/4/26
This album is fucking incredible. What a gift.
Indie rock masterpieces. Recovering after that awful new single...
I want this autotune to work but my god these vocals are actually thrashing against what is otherwise a really fun, peppy instrumental. I actually feel ill listening to this. I'm going to listen to Comedown Machine now
There's a certain sense of the "abyss" that this album really manages to scratch, even it may sometimes be tangential at times. The opener is perhaps one of the most beautifully made songs I've ever listened to. It truly does take a certain type to make a single guitar loop work for the run-time of nearly 8 minutes (with all of said 10 minutes being utterly transfixing). This is, of course, not to say that other songs aren't also fantastic. Bloodhail somehow tops said ... read more
Great album! Knows what it wants to do and does said thing quite well; it finds its sound and explores it as well as you could reasonably expect. Is this perhaps slightly disappointing as one of the so-called "crowning achievements" of shoegaze...? Maybe... but the genre hasn't always jibed with me as much as I'd hope it would.
It is however fun walking around my campus and listening to this. It's substantial enough, and well-written to really sink into, and I think ... read more
Pretty fun listen!
Obviously well crafted; there’s no issues at all with production. Do u remember everything here… no
Are the good tracks otherwise very good… yes