IS THIS A CONSPIRACY?
This week Julian Casablancas dropped “Phrazes for the Young,” Casablancas’s first solo album and one of the best debuts I’ve heard. For fans of The Strokes out there hoping this would be another Strokes album, sorry. Let’s get one thing straight: “Phrazes” is not “The Strokes, Part 4.” Jules’ solo offering pushes the retro, electro, neo-glow sounds of the 1980s to the hilt. Heavy bass and synthesizers pop up everywhere, and you can’t help but get up and gyrate. Listening to the album makes me want to hold up a pink glow stick in gold lame leggings at an “ultra-hip” rave or, perhaps, at a...
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By Y10
2:45p.m. on November 8, 2009
facile.
Wow, a music review by someone who actually seems to like music, is well-informed, and can write! Thank you for this, Madison Moore.
And hurray for Phrazes!