can i just say...macchu picchu needs some kind of award. i can't even. when i listen to it i just wanna boogie down and get groovy. lord. okay so it starts of with some kind of rocket take off, yeah? so its like the take off of a brand new album (so good) and then in comes the keyboard and then JULIAN CASABLANCAS JUST BLOWING OUR MIND WITH HIS VOICE. idk the mixture of everything is so perfect, they have the most amazing beats aswell. i can't describe it without exaggerated hand movements. but seriously, their timing throughout the whole album and the guitar riffs are so outstanding.
julian describes it as 1970s rock and "music from the future" and i can't describe it any better. i played macchu picchu to my dad and he liked it and this is coming from someone who has a group called "the living hamsters" and write the most crazy and wild electrondigitialsoulfulidontevenknow music (that i love, btw, daddy) so julian got it right on.
i was going to give some crazy lowdown on every single song but i'm to tired and lazy to do that, so maybe i'll just post a video of "undercover of darkness" and just watch it with whoever wants to watch it and listen to it with every atom in my body. i cannot get over the opening guitar sequence. i've never like dissonance but in a way have. it gives me shivers and i could just listen to it over and over again.
each song in this is so different from the next. comparing macchu picchu (the first song on the album) and "life is simple in the moonlight" (the last song) there is quite a change. the futuristic aspect is till evident, but not really in the same way. when i listen to lisim i think of flying through the nebula like a badass and just flipping and somersaulting everywhere, but with macchu picchu i imagine myself dancing on the moon with vince and howard from the might boosh and julian and just sidling up to nicolai fraiture and staring at his fingers, yeah? but like thats just off the top of my head.
and then gratisfaction kinda reminds me of belle and sebastian (truthfully quite a lot of the strokes music reminds me off upbeat B&S, not sure why but it does?) and i just wanna eat cookies with fabrizio moretti and (duh) julian casablancas.
i can't actually fathom disliking a strokes song/album,but "two kinds of happiness" i don't really like. you can't hear the vocals and it's a little bit messay. everything just runs into eachother and you're not sure what to really listen to...the drums or the umming and aahing at the beginning and then idk it's just confuzziling. but apart from that it's really quite impossible to abhor anything about the strokes. even their names are quite magical. i think i give this album a 9/10. the -1 comes from "two kinds of happiness" and the album cover art. it doesn't really look like angles to me...but i'm picky that way.
OH OH OH I FORGOT TO SAY ONE THING: "you're so right" sounds crazy like a franz ferdinand song, i likey though. here's "undercover of darkness" for your pleasure:
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