Category: Comedown

News and updates about The Strokes 5th Album Comedown Machine

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The Strokes Comedown Machine artwork

There has been much speculation over the artwork for Comedown Machine, the Is This It portraits cast as silhouettes could seem like an ominous sign for the future of the band but Albert reassured fans on Twitter last night that whilst it was the end of an era that it was meant to...

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The Strokes Comedown Machine – my review

The Strokes are back taking risks with their sound and are all the better for it Whether you loved, simply liked or were deeply disappointed by The Strokes last record, it is clear that without Angles Comedown Machine could not have happened. That album was a learning curve, the first step of the...

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Listen to The Strokes b-side Fast Animals

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...

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Unofficial lyrics to The Strokes Comedown Machine

I’m pretty sure there aren’t going to be lyrics in the Comedown Machine album booklet and unless Julian and Warren Fu do some more lyric sheets like they did for One Way Trigger then we are without official lyrics. However, thanks to the work and dedication of fans, especially Dan...

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The Strokes Comedown Machine Reviews round-up

Thought it would be useful to round-up all of the reviews there has been so far, the good, the bad and the average. Still waiting a few more from the larger sites/magazines like NME, Spin and Pitchfork. NME track-by track Q Magazine : 4 out of 5 stars Even when they up the...

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Listen to a stream of The Strokes Comedown Machine now

The day people have been waiting for, if you can’t wait until the record hits your country listen to it over at Pitchfork advance Clearly the album is way too awesome for my laptop as it keeps crashing, did hear Tap Out on Zane Lowe earlier and fucking loved it....

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Listen to preview clips of The Strokes Comedown Machine

If you simply can’t wait any longer then Amazon has 30 second previews up of Comedown Machine Amazon 30 Second Preview clips of Comedown Machine All of this points towards an official stream of the full album hitting the Internet sometime tomorrow, when it does I will of course post it. I...

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The Strokes All The Time video plus more reviews

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...