Strokes Talk New Album

The Strokes are back in NYC working on their fourth studio album, "according to Rolling Stone.":http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2009/03/the-strokes-are-back-in-action.php. The band have set up shop in a midtown rehearsal space and the band's frontman Julian Casablancas says they still "have a lot of work to do" before any of us see where their little two year haitus has taken them.

The band's last album was 2006's First Impressions of Earth, a more condensed rock album compared to the lo-fi, garage rock on Is This It?, the debut that put the Strokes on the map. The new one, says Casablancas, "has a Seventies vibe, like Thin Lizzy or Elvis Costello. But then some of it is bizarre music from the future that we're trying to tone down to sound catchy. So we're trapped between the future and the Seventies."

Casablancas also said the the dynamics of the band members felt "like we're new."

"We didn't used to be honest — there would always be minifeuds over stupid shit. Now, if Nick [Valensi] and Fab [Moretti] or anyone are saying they like it fast or slow, we'll talk about it, as opposed to saying, 'Well, I never liked you sister.'"

Manager Ryan Gentles sent out a message to fans saying, "No recording studio time has been booked yet, as they sketch out the blueprints of new songs and fine-tune plans in their rehearsal space, but it will undoubtedly be all mapped out and etched in stone at some point in the not-too-distant future."

As for a release this year, Gentles added, "I wish I could tell you that this definitely meant we can expect an album release date before the end of 2009, but it's just too soon to speculate on that for sure yet."