The Strokes "Is This It" emo as well as their emotion

as well as their emotion

the perfect flow of the production - the way the record was experimental without ever being self indulgent - it was everything we wanted

Michael Graves at Osiris Studio and cut by Chris Muth at Taloowa

000 copies to date in the UK

The Strokes "Is This It" emo as well as their emotionClocking in at 36 minutes, Is This It? packs its perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are Last Nite with its insistent motown backbeat and choppy johnny thunders like guitar solo, Barely Legal, sounding like 1980s era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly Someday with its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break up. While frontman Julian Casablancas drawls like Lou Reed