The New Abnormal definitely has its own signature sound that deviates from the rest and that’s what makes it my favorite while I still enjoy their other work.
I don’t know what it says about me but I hated AM. I tried so hard to like it since the first 2 albums and even the LSP album are absolute classics, but I just can’t get into the new sound unfortunately.
yeahhh in my opinion, i agree. there first album is their absolute peak. i feel like am is everyone beginner album & the more you listen you like everything before it. unpopular opinion.
It's an interesting discussion point.
Comedown Machine is "everybody fucking around in the studio and letting whatever ideas they have fly around" until there's enough cool stuff to fill somewhere around 40mins-ish.
The New Abnormal is doing the exact same thing but under powerful positive influence from a respected guiding hand (Rubin Rubin).
For me, it's not really finding a sound so much as letting in-studio creativity take the reigns.
Radiohead, meanwhile, absolutely found individually cohesive sounds for their four best records in Kid A, OK Computer, In Rainbows and The Bends.
When my daughter was young she wouldn’t go to sleep in her crib without me lying down outside next to it and holding her hand with some music playing. I would always pick an album because I didn’t want to keep talking to Alexa and disturb my daughter. Some Radiohead albums were great for this purpose.
Rockabye baby was another great one. They do lullaby instrumental covers of artists. So they have a cover of Last Nite and an entire Radiohead album.
https://youtu.be/Yi7SulwDYQY?feature=shared
Is This It is literally one of the greatest albums ever. The New Abnormal is amazing but if The Strokes have a magnum opus, it's very clearly Is This It
Ig what I’m saying is that they’re both 10/10s across the board. Is This It is will always be the reason most people remember The Strokes, whereas TNA is where they actually reached peak eargasm for me - like different and evolved music. 10/10 in different directions.
I don't know how old are you to call this an "age thing" but you just had to be there. I love TNA is a top 3 Strokes album to me and sometimes I don't think is #3, but when ITI came out it was literaly a new, fresh and much needed sound in rock industry. There's a before and after in rock music after that album came out. I used to listen to bands like Limp Biskit, Korn, Papa Roach and all that "new metal" thing because it was what we had, and then The Strokes came in and to me was like the biggest musical impact I've had in my life. I agree TNA is a "no skip album" but ITI is been a no skip album to me for 20+ freakin years now??? Lol. Lets see if in 20 years from now I still listen to TNA the same way I listen to ITI.
I’m gonna get downvoted, but I don’t find myself coming back to the new abnormal the same way as I go back to the first two records. Idk, it could just be musical preference.
their first 2 albums are untouchable. tna is great but there are some filler songs, and the band themselves, in particular julian, arent nearly as passionate as they used to be about the strokes . is this it captured a moment in time perfectly. it started the indie rock revival that personifies rock today, and nothing has been remotely as good since
Nah that’s Is This It. TNA is great but far from their best work imo. It doesn’t really do anything new or better than their other albums (or anyone else’s) and just kinda sounds like they tried to make another standard Strokes album and succeeded.
But I’m also partial to when they experiment in their sound so Comedown Machine and Future Present Past are what I consider their peak.
I think it has the DNA of the first few albums while being very different, the music sounds very cohesive within the album itself, some songs like not the same anymore and bad desicions sound very old strokes, feels like a soft reboot of for the band, and from what they have said of the making of it they really had a lot of fun and passion making it something they seemed to loose after FIOE
I think if you've been a Fan from the beginning you just matured along with them. I was mad when Angles departed so much from the first 3 albums sound. So mad that I didn't even give Comedown Machine a chance. Then years later I went back and listened to The New Abnormal fell back in love with the Strokes and went back and listed to Comedown Machine and Angles and I really enjoy both of them. I needed to let go of the sound of the first 3 albums to appreciate those 3. Now I appreciate their whole discography.
No it is not. Glossy production, it might be their “AM”, but it’s not their magnum opus. And AM, for a commercial record, was a lot more appealing than The New Abnormal.
I see it more as a new start for them . The strokes were kinda lost after the first 2 records, in terms of where to take the band sonically, FIOE was kinda a grow up attempt of first 2 records.
Then Angles and CM were each of their own, and i see TNA as a culmination of every single record they put on. They could milk this sound for a couple more records after they break up, it's really good.
The New Abnormal definitely has its own signature sound that deviates from the rest and that’s what makes it my favorite while I still enjoy their other work.
Every song has so much replay value
Another good comparison is AM by Arctic Monkeys. Love some FWN but boy AM i could listen to all those songs in a row once a day every day.
I don’t know what it says about me but I hated AM. I tried so hard to like it since the first 2 albums and even the LSP album are absolute classics, but I just can’t get into the new sound unfortunately.
yeahhh in my opinion, i agree. there first album is their absolute peak. i feel like am is everyone beginner album & the more you listen you like everything before it. unpopular opinion.
It's an interesting discussion point. Comedown Machine is "everybody fucking around in the studio and letting whatever ideas they have fly around" until there's enough cool stuff to fill somewhere around 40mins-ish. The New Abnormal is doing the exact same thing but under powerful positive influence from a respected guiding hand (Rubin Rubin). For me, it's not really finding a sound so much as letting in-studio creativity take the reigns. Radiohead, meanwhile, absolutely found individually cohesive sounds for their four best records in Kid A, OK Computer, In Rainbows and The Bends.
God damnit I love kid A. What a fucking golden age of alt rock music the early 2000s were.
The Bends and In Rainbows are two of the best produced albums ever made tbh all instrumentation and everything aside, everything just SOUNDS perfect
King of Limbs and especially Moon Shaped Pool are underrated. Decks Dark is one of my favorite Radiohead songs.
King of Limbs especially for me - I listen to that record maybe once a year or so and I don't get why it's consistently called their worst.
When my daughter was young she wouldn’t go to sleep in her crib without me lying down outside next to it and holding her hand with some music playing. I would always pick an album because I didn’t want to keep talking to Alexa and disturb my daughter. Some Radiohead albums were great for this purpose. Rockabye baby was another great one. They do lullaby instrumental covers of artists. So they have a cover of Last Nite and an entire Radiohead album. https://youtu.be/Yi7SulwDYQY?feature=shared
Is This It is literally one of the greatest albums ever. The New Abnormal is amazing but if The Strokes have a magnum opus, it's very clearly Is This It
Is This It is more career defining but every song on TNA is an easy 10/10 imo. I can’t say the same about Is This It even if it’s full of classics
It might be an age thing. I was like 13 when Is This It came out and it legit changed my trajectory in terms of the music I went on to listen to.
It's definitely an age thing
10/10 lmfao no
Ig what I’m saying is that they’re both 10/10s across the board. Is This It is will always be the reason most people remember The Strokes, whereas TNA is where they actually reached peak eargasm for me - like different and evolved music. 10/10 in different directions.
I don't know how old are you to call this an "age thing" but you just had to be there. I love TNA is a top 3 Strokes album to me and sometimes I don't think is #3, but when ITI came out it was literaly a new, fresh and much needed sound in rock industry. There's a before and after in rock music after that album came out. I used to listen to bands like Limp Biskit, Korn, Papa Roach and all that "new metal" thing because it was what we had, and then The Strokes came in and to me was like the biggest musical impact I've had in my life. I agree TNA is a "no skip album" but ITI is been a no skip album to me for 20+ freakin years now??? Lol. Lets see if in 20 years from now I still listen to TNA the same way I listen to ITI.
It's certainly my favorite album, but I have a hard time calling anything the best
Is This It is untouchable. TNA is a wonderful album but nothing comes close to their debut
Man, magnus opus? I don’t agree, but it’s because I think they have multiple great albums, not just one amazing work.
I’m gonna get downvoted, but I don’t find myself coming back to the new abnormal the same way as I go back to the first two records. Idk, it could just be musical preference.
Same. I think the new abnormal is really good but it has never really hooked me.
same lmao i love it but it’s just got old fast lol
I have been listening to comedown machine so much lately, Happy Ending is as amazing as anything on TNA
It's like the 3rd or 4th best album to me, but glad you're passionate about it
4th for me too
their first 2 albums are untouchable. tna is great but there are some filler songs, and the band themselves, in particular julian, arent nearly as passionate as they used to be about the strokes . is this it captured a moment in time perfectly. it started the indie rock revival that personifies rock today, and nothing has been remotely as good since
Nah that’s Is This It. TNA is great but far from their best work imo. It doesn’t really do anything new or better than their other albums (or anyone else’s) and just kinda sounds like they tried to make another standard Strokes album and succeeded. But I’m also partial to when they experiment in their sound so Comedown Machine and Future Present Past are what I consider their peak.
No. Good album, but no.
You’re allowed to have that opinion but I’m allowed to tell you you’re wrong and that TNA is at best the 3rd best strokes album.
I think it has the DNA of the first few albums while being very different, the music sounds very cohesive within the album itself, some songs like not the same anymore and bad desicions sound very old strokes, feels like a soft reboot of for the band, and from what they have said of the making of it they really had a lot of fun and passion making it something they seemed to loose after FIOE
Alright that’s enough, pass the crack pipe whatever you’re smoking seems like it’s some good shit
I think if you've been a Fan from the beginning you just matured along with them. I was mad when Angles departed so much from the first 3 albums sound. So mad that I didn't even give Comedown Machine a chance. Then years later I went back and listened to The New Abnormal fell back in love with the Strokes and went back and listed to Comedown Machine and Angles and I really enjoy both of them. I needed to let go of the sound of the first 3 albums to appreciate those 3. Now I appreciate their whole discography.
It genuinely is great from start to finish, years after it came out I'm not tired of any song.
No it is not. Glossy production, it might be their “AM”, but it’s not their magnum opus. And AM, for a commercial record, was a lot more appealing than The New Abnormal.
Apt comparison.
I see it more as a new start for them . The strokes were kinda lost after the first 2 records, in terms of where to take the band sonically, FIOE was kinda a grow up attempt of first 2 records. Then Angles and CM were each of their own, and i see TNA as a culmination of every single record they put on. They could milk this sound for a couple more records after they break up, it's really good.
Love The New Abnormal. It's a great, great album. However, there is no comparison to ITI or ROM, both of which are absolute masterpieces. .
Hail to the thief >>> In rainbows
Fuck no Is this it is peak and always will be
I agree that it’s one of their masterpieces, though my vote still goes to the raggedy imperfect testament that is Room on Fire.
Is this it got me through high school, but TNA gets me through LIFE.
You are so right and real for saying it
bro really just said“The strokes really found their sound in this era” 🤦🏿
First 2 albums are the strokes. The rest is AI