The new album by The Strokes is now a reality after the New York band confirmed yesterday during their New Year's Eve concert that the group that rose to fame with Is this it? still more alive than ever. Julian Casablancas, microphone in hand, announced to attendees at the Barclays Center in New York that The Strokes will release their sixth studio album in 2020. After dropping the bomb, the group performed an unpublished canicón for the first time. According to him setlist, the theme is titled ode to the mets. You can listen to the announcement and the new song in the following video:
How has the announcement of the new album by The Strokes 2020 been?
"Angles, angles, angles!" chanted Strokes fans from the front rows of Brooklyn's Barclays Center. "Angles? What songs are there in Angles? », He replied jokingly? Julian Casablancas (because, indeed, Angles It is one of the albums with the worst publicity of the group).
«I, I, I,… always you. What about my needs? ”, Casablancas continued protesting, before releasing the first of the two bombshells of the night: “How about a new song?”.
To the deafening shrieks of the audience, Julian continued with the news, blurting it out as if it were the most normal thing in the world. As if Strokes fans hadn't been choking for years with uncertainty and the absence of news regarding the group: «Yes, we are going to release a new album. Here we go, 2020. We've been taking the 2010s in stride, but now we're thawed out and back. Do you know what? Normally I don't know what I'm saying and I talk a lot, but it's a pleasure to share the stage with you."
And then he interpreted Ode to the mets. Mellow, somewhat nostalgic and dreamy, the theme is pure Strokes. A very fine advance that, together with The adults are talking prepare us for a very promising sixth album.
Where are The Strokes?
That The Strokes release a new album in 2020 is totally crazy for their fans. In recent years, little has been known about the Strokes. Just four songs: the three included in the EP Future, Present, Past y the unexpected The adults are talking played live only once in 2019 (besides yesterday in Brooklyn) . It would be surprising if the song didn't end up on The Strokes' new album in 2020.
If you do not know Adults are talking, It's too late to click on this link to Youtube
Since the 2013 launch of comedown machine, the very existence or disappearance of the Strokes has been a mystery. The decline in their international impact (they were never able to overcome the impact of their debut album) and the participation of Julian Casablancas as the vocalist of the much more experimental group The Voidz have relegated to The Strokes into a state of perpetual mystery. Until yesterday.
Undoubtedly, this news together with that of the long-awaited return of John Frusciante to the Californian band of the Red Hot Chili Peppers (with a new album also confirmed) makes us start 2020 musically euphoric.
The Strokes concert setlist for December 31, 2019
In addition to the announcement of the new album and the presentation of the new song, yesterday's The Strokes concert in Brooklyn allowed us to hear The adults are talking. Then we leave you with the complete list of the songs they performed at the Barclays Center in New York:
- Heart in a Cage
- You Only Live Once
- The Modern Age
- New York City Cops
- The Adults Are Talking
- Hard to Explain
- Ice of the World
- Reptilia
- Auld Lang Syne
- Barely Legal
- Last Night
- Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men
- Ode to the Mets
- juice box
- What Ever Happened?
- Someday