Is This It

The Strokes - Is This It

Is This It
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Artist: The Strokes
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2001
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Is This It
  2. The Modern Age
  3. Soma
  4. Barely Legal
  5. Someday
  6. Alone, Together
  7. Last Nite
  8. Hard To Explain
  9. When It Started
  10. Trying Your Luck
  11. Take It Or Leave It

Music reviews of Is This It

Music Review: Excellent!
Rating: 5 Stars

Arguing about whether the songs/this album is good or bad is meaningless. Everyone is different and like different things. Whether you like or dislike something is unlikely to sway me. So, all I want to say is I really like the album.

I first heard this band from the video game Rock Band and immediately started looking up their work. I've got this one and Impressions so far.

What stands out about them are the vocals, Casablancas doesn't sing the words, he shouts them into the mic making them slightly distorted, and what I really like are the guitar rhythms and riffs, very catching. Like any composition, it really isn't the individual pieces that sound good, it's the combination of all the pieces of the band that make it sound great. Very catchy. It's a 10/10 for me so far.

Description of Is This It

With all the media hype that dogged the Strokes before the release of their debut album, it's rather apt that they chose the title Is This It. On the strength of just five songs released on two singles, the Strokes were being hailed as everything from the saviors of rock & roll to the Savior himself. Surely, few bands could live up to the impossibly high standards set for this young five-piece, but the band needn't have worried: Is This It is one of the most exciting and energetic debut albums to spring from New York's long-dormant club scene. In fact, the Strokes are a New York City band through and through; like the Velvet Underground, these are a bunch of uptown artsy types elegantly slumming downtown to the tried and tested themes of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. Their singer-songwriter, the fantastically named Julian Casablancas, delivers his lyrics with a weary nonchalance that belies his age on songs like the title track, "Soma," "Hard to Explain," and the altogether wonderful "Barely Legal." And the band recalls the likes of Television and the Stooges on "Last Nite" and "The Modern Age." Let's hope this sexy, stylish, and undeniably cool band is the future of rock & roll. --Robert Burrow

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