The Strokes "Is This It" acoustic Chase Knobbe (guitar)

Chase Knobbe (guitar)

it is a combination that none but Strange could execute under—and as a result of—precise circumstances

but something in the way the songs connected with each other suggested that Olsen had something far more complex to say that wasn't quite getting through with Half Way Home

suggesting a much poppier

we all knew the songs backwards and forwards

The Strokes "Is This It" acoustic Chase Knobbe (guitar)Clocking in at 36 minutes, Is This It? packs its perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are Last Nite with its insistent motown backbeat and choppy johnny thunders like guitar solo, Barely Legal, sounding like 1980s era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly Someday with its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break up. While frontman Julian Casablancas drawls like Lou Reed