As speculated previously Fast Animals is indeed a slighter faster version of album track Slow Animals.  Personally I prefer Slow Animals which is one of my favourite tracks of Comedown Machine.

Fast Animals is the b-side to the 7″ version of All The Time, released in the UK on April 1st – it is also a bonus track on the Japanese version of Comedown Machine. I don’t usually post officially released material but as I imagine this one will be hard to get hold of it MP3 form I will this time.

Thanks to fans over at The Strokes News for sharing.

I wasn’t sure whether we would get a video for single “All The Time” seeing as the band are doing no promotion for Comedown Machine (at least for the time being). So it was a pleasant surprise to find out some kind of video has indeed been made.  At first it seems like such a collection of the band performing throughout their 15 year career but there is some new footage in there of the guys messing around backstage and in the studio and generally having fun.

It is basically a lovely piece of nostalgia and also highlights the friendship within the band especially in light of recent years and the media’s portrayal of the band’s 5 year hiatus.   Albert mentioned on Twitter that he was responsible for the video, nice one Albert.

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Comedown Machine Reviews

Couple of more have been published, including the BBC Music review ”Brilliant pop songs – and sometimes that’s all that really matters”

Rolling Stone gave the album 3 out of 5 stars but the review itself came over as quite harsh and the writer Rob Sheffield seems to have some kind of problem with Julian.

You can read it under the cut

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The time is here and after One Way Trigger confused the hell out of a lot of people The Strokes first official single from Comedown Machine is a more traditional Strokes song, a rousing number that demands to be sung very loudly and by many people.

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Listen to it below.

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All The Time / Alt links

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All The Time will be available as an official download on February 19th.

What an amazing way for The Strokes to end their tour for the year – Nikolai wrapped in a Brazilian flag, Fab talking Portuguese to the crowd, yeah seriously their gigs in South America always seem such fun.

I was unable to record this as the stream wasn’t working in the UK but I have found the show on YouTube, see the videos below

Setlist

01 New York City Cops
02 Heart In a Cage
03 Machu Picchu
04 The Modern Age
05 You Only Live Once
06 Is This It
07 Under Cover Of Darkness
08 Someday
09 You’re So Right
10 12:51
11 Reptilia
12 Alone, Together
13 Automatic Stop
14 Gratisfaction
15 Juicebox
16 Last Nite
17 Under Control
18 Hard To Explain
19 Take It Or Leave It

Live Photos: Fall 2011: Planeta Terra Festival, Brazil

Audio

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Videos

Download Videos .  Thanks to Gabriel for the high quality.

The Strokes played their penultimate show of the year at Personal Festival in Argentina

Unfortunately the live stream for this show was appalling so I couldn’t watch or record it. However, I do have audio courtesy of Florenciaos

The guys brought back a few classics for the setlist including 12:51 and HIAC. I adore the beginning of 12:51 with the crowd going crazy.

Download : The Strokes at Personal Festival (Audio)

Setlist

01 New York City Cops
02 Heart In a Cage
03 Machu Picchu
04 The Modern Age
05 You Only Live Once
06 Under Cover of Darkness
07 Is This It
08 What Ever Happened?
09 Someday
10 You’re So Right
11 12:51
12 Reptilia
13 Alone, Together
14 Gratisfaction
15 Automatic Stop
16 Juicebox
17 Last Nite
18 Hard To Explain
19 Take It Or Leave It

Live Photos: Fall 2011: Personal Festival, Argentina 

Videos

You Only Live Once

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