Wednesday, February 9th 2011
News: The Strokes
New Strokes Song, Blah Blah Blah
We were going to try out something new today, kicking off a “singles review” feature we’ve been mulling over, and with the new song by The Strokes being the spazzy topic of the moment for the digital hipster legions it seemed the soil was fertile for experimentation.
But there’s a problem. The song, Under Cover of Darkness, while hyped to high hell by every music site and Twitter feed from here to Cairo as the second musical coming of Christ, is far and away the least-deserved hype magnet of 2011 thus far. It’s attached a vacuum of inspiration to my mind and sucked out everything but a thin gelatinous mucus of pity for fools who are, at this very moment, declaring this to be “incredible” and “really exciting”:
With chirpy guitar squeals and a sock-hop beat under frontman Julian Casablancas’ mumbly ”I’ll wait for you, will you wait for me?” vocals, the track is a cute and harmless ditty. Nothing less, but sure as hell nothing more.
Infect your iTunes with a download at The Strokes’ official site, if you’re into that kind of thing. We won’t judge.
Kinda weak.
I made it 9 seconds. If this was the rodeo, I would be a winner. However, we are talking about the music of The Strokes, which makes us all losers.
they FART at 00:52….and produced this crap…
‘we only got 4 minutes to shit the world’
you clearly don’t “get” The Strokes… haha kidding.
But what is getting really tiring is that I can’t go to a music blog without reading that fucking word “hipster” . I know, it’s the biggest bullshit and uncreative trend to emerge from western culture so let’s pretend they don’t exist and let’s listen to the music without bias. It annoys me more than when music blogs describe every band as indie… as if it was really relevant to the sound.
I agree, however, cute and harmless, but nothing more.
I don’t think the song’s bad at all. I enjoyed it. Isn’t groundbreaking by any means, nor is it anything special. But a fun song with a catchy tune? Sure.
This band had a huge impact on me when their first record came out…my opinion of them has declined with every release.
So this song makes sense.
The over produced drums are killing me most of all.
It sounds like they just rewrote “someday” from their first album.
It’s not really bad, but why would you go away for 4 years only to come back doing the same shit, mucking around in the same sonic territory and rewriting your old songs?
Plus Julian’s voice sounds weak and thin…. which is really too bad, that is one of this band’s strongest assets.
Icky poo septic toe jam of a song.
it’s just like all the older Strokes stuff: poppy and crunchy and oversweetened, milky with overproduction with bite-sized-marshmallow guitar riffs floating here and there.
It’s the second coming of “Last Night”.
After First Impressions of Earth I’m not sure why anybody has gotten their hopes up too high. I like The Strokes but I’m prepared for disappointment. With that in mind, this song wasn’t as bad as I would have expected but the squealy guitars pissed me off…however that could be because I was listening to Ween before interrupting it with this and Ween just does everything better than anybody else.