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Some 20 years after they began playing in New York clubs, and seven years since their last studio album, singer Julian Casablancas, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr., bassist Nikolai Fraiture and drummer Fabrizio Moretti are back in business as The Strokes. This single from the forthcoming
The New Abnormal recycles the hook from Billy Idol's "Dancing with Myself" into what
Consequence of Sound calls "the band's catchiest song since [its debut LP]
Is This It."
Ilan Rubin keeps himself busy. The drummer for Nine Inch Nails for more than a decade, as well as a member of Angels & Airwaves, Rubin also records as The New Regime, and is in the midst of releasing his third album. That is, he released
Heart in September,
Mind in November and
Body in January.
Soul is due out in the next few weeks, and we're now featuring the high-energy title track of the entire project. (What is an "album" these days, anyway?) The New Regime is about to start a string of U.S. tour dates opening for Silversun Pickups.
Hinds: Good Bad Times
Formed in Madrid in 2011, this quartet achieved success with its debut album in 2016 and is now preparing its third full-length release,
The Prettiest Curse. Initially known for low-fi garage-rock, the band moves more toward polished indie-pop with this song. Singer and guitarist Carlotta Cosials said the lyric describes "the struggle of communication, time difference, distance" when a couple must spend time apart. "You're turning good times into bad times / Now that you're no longer sleeping with me."
Surge: Time And Again
Last month we featured "Smash the Clocks" from this U.K. indie-pop band's debut EP,
Colours. We soon gave "Time and Again" a try on
The Detour (our nightly free-form show that you really need to check out), and its infectious, upbeat sound stuck in our ears, so we've moved it into the New Music bin. Among the influences the band cites are Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire, Oasis and, incidentally, The Strokes.
Tommy Down: Don't Think I'm Leaving Without You
This new single introduces us to a new voice in the soul tradition. At age 20, Down was singing jazz standards across Europe as a vocalist with the Bristol University Jazz Orchestra, and shortly after, formed Harker Moon, a London-based rock-funk band. Now breaking out as a solo artist, he slides into the retro-soul space occupied these days by the likes of Leon Bridges. Asked in a
Fame Magazine interview to name his musical icons, he said, "I’ve always loved Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and The Beatles, to name a few. Quincy Jones’ musical career has inspired me too."
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