IT HAS A NAME! Shortly after announcing its existence, The Strokes have provided us with a lovely promotional shot (above), a release date (kinda in the middle) and a tracklisting (at the bottom).
Myspace Music had an interview with primary Angles songwriter and guitarist Nick Valensi and got some of the digs on the first Strokes album in five years:
I wanted to go with that title, [Angles], for the same reason I’d want to go with any title because it sounds really cool and you can interpret it differently. I’m not really looking that deep into. Sounds cool to me.
On writing music for the album:
It was really different for me, personally. I never really wrote songs. These past five years that we took off was the first time that I really sat down and focused myself on actually trying to write a song from start to finish. So then, to be able to bring it into the band and have my songs played by my band, was new for me and really refreshing. . . . I always worked on other people’s songs and, to be honest, I still think that’s my strong suit—arranging and coming up with parts, coming up with directions for other people’s ideas. I still think that’s what I’m good at. In those five years off, no one in the band was writing songs for the band and I found myself trying to rally the troops several times. So I really felt like the best way for me to get my band back on track was to send them demos that I made. I thought that might excite them.. but it didn’t. At the very least, I got some of my music on the record.
Yes, at the very least you did. Angles is out March 22, with some tour dates coming along shortly. Their first single will be "Under Cover of Darkness," which is speculated to come out next month. Check out the tracklisting below:
Machu Picchu
Under Cover of Darkness
Two Kinds of Happiness
You’re So Right
Taken For A Fool
Games
Call Me Back
Gratisfaction
Metabolism
Life Is Simple In The Moonlight
(via DiS)