2001Is This It?
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The Strokes
When they emerged from the New York scene at the turn of the millennium, the scruffy, hip, Seventies-inflected Strokes seemed to embody the very nature of downtown cool despite the fact that most of the band had grown up uptown. Thanks to a truckload of positive press and the terrific Modern Age EP, the Strokes were famous before they even put out a full-length album. When they released one, 2001’s Is This It, the band backed up the buzz with killer hooks, making New York’s Lower East Side sound cool again.
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Selected Discography
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Is This It?
January 01, 2001
star ratingIs This It? was a flawless debut album, making you jump up and down at the rhythm-guitar action of manic lust-for-lust anthems like “Soma,” “Someday,” and “Hard to Explain,” in which drummer Fab Moretti (everyone’s favorite!) steals the show. It’s a much better album than the Vibr...
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2001The Modern Age EP
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2003Room on Fire
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2006First Impressions of Earth
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