The new album from The Strokes, Angles, will be available to the general public on Tuesday. However, the whole thing can be heard now at the band's website. Although that is the primary reason for this post, something has to be said about the incredulous mismanagement of the band's web-based efforts. Back in early February, the marketing geniuses working for The Strokes label RCA offered up the song "Under Cover of Darkness" for free for a limited time. Those who dutifully went to the site were met with a clunky construct, requests for passwords and frustrating server crashes. Although offering a full LP stream is generous, one look at the misshapen, minuscule player is enough to make any band once again question the benefits of major label support. As for the music itself, my opinion is pretty mixed so far, with most of the album suffering by comparison to the brilliant "Darkness". A full review of Angles is forthcoming. If you are too lazy to click to the get to the stream, give it a listen to a few tracks below. Bonus: Watch the fancy schmancy video for "Under Cover ofDarkness" below.
Pre-order Angles here.
Machu Picchu
Under Cover Of Darkness
Taken For A Fool
could not agree more on both accounts. what are they doing with that site?
ReplyDeleteAlso, the whole album could just be darkness repeated 10 times and I would think higher of it.