The Strokes are back. They released their first album for seven years, ‘The New Abnormal’, in April, at just the right moment for that title to seem oddly prescient.
There were various reasons for the band being so long out of action, but one – the internet hints – is a wariness on the part of frontman Julian Casablancas to throw himself back into the promotional machine.Noticeably standoffish in a new interview with the NME, Casablancas eventually explains: “I don’t know how people are at the NME these days, but I know that the trend is always a journalist will kiss your ass to your face and talk shit when they’re writing the article.
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