After the painfully awkward last Strokes album First Impressions Of Earth came out in 2006, the tide seemed to shift away from the New York quintet and it seemed as if even the Strokes had tired of themselves. Fab Moretti, Albert Hammond Jr. and Nikolai Fraiture all soon took off to work on their respective side-projects, while frontman Julian Casablancas seemed content to make little more than the occasional guest-vocal appearances on Danger Mouse and Saturday Night Live albums – until now. Full Article »