Born out of a 30-minute live improvisation
while the production surrounds him with low-end pressure and echo
People With Chairs Up Their Noses – Song Of the Sea
or trying to escape into fantasy
and Sterling Morrison links the album closely to the Velvet Underground universe
The Strokes - Is This It Groenland Records Born out of a 30-minuteThe Strokes era defining 2001 debut album and one of the key records of the early 2000s rock revival, bringing New York cool, garage rock economy, post punk sharpness, melodic precision, and detached urban romance back into the centre of guitar music. Style: Garage rock revival, indie rock, post punk revival, alternative rock, new wave, rock n roll Released in 2001, Is This It arrived with the force of a reset button. At a moment when mainstream rock