The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. performing solo in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever Media)
Such is the nature of 2020, it already feels like a lifetime ago since The Strokes released their comeback album The New Abnormal. If any reminder is needed, the band have premiered a video for Ode To The Mets, directed by their regular collaborator Warren Fu.
It was in fact towards the end of April this year when The Strokes returned with their first studio record since 2013’s Comedown Machine, described by Live4ever in our review as, ‘making just enough of the right choices to keep keeping the faith’:
“In the end, it’s left for New York to provide the inspiration, as opposed to mirroring the desperation of trying to make it as they were in the beginning,” it reads. “Here, Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus provides some rare tokens of glee and animation, but closer Ode To The Mets is pure Frankie Sinatra, the memories piling up like drifts of snow with JC growling,’I was just bored, playin’ the guitar/Learned all your tricks, wasn’t too hard’.”
