Albert Hammond Sr, father of Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr, has apparently confirmed the band are in the studio working on a new album.
Last month, Billboard reported that The Strokes had made good on their promise to re-enter the studio as quickly as possible in a bid to draw a line under the problems and delays which affected their 2011 album ‘Angles‘, and been working in New York’s Electric Lady Studios with producer Gus Oberg.
And now, after Pitchfork claimed shortly after that all aspects of the story had been denied by the group’s management, Hammond Sr. has told NME that they are in fact recording new material, which his son has described as ‘incredible’.
“Albert says that the stuff they’re doing is incredible,” he said. “They’re doing it themselves with their friend, engineer and producer. He just says ‘Dad, it’s incredible’.”
“I don’t think they’ll go in a wildly different direction. Obviously the songs will be different, but I think The Strokes are The Strokes; they always will be The Strokes.”