The Strokes have begun recording seventh album with Rick Rubin
Iconic producer Rick Rubin has revealed that he’s engaged on a brand new album with The Strokes, having just lately accomplished a recording session with them in Costa Rica.
Yesterday (October 12) noticed Rubin seem on The Joe Rogan Expertise, the place he spoke about a few of his upcoming initiatives. Referring to The Strokes’ seventh album – which is but to be introduced or acknowledged by the band – he stated: “Just a few months in the past I used to be in Costa Rica, recording a brand new album with The Strokes, and we rented this home up on the highest of a mountain and set the band up outdoors.
“So that they’re taking part in… It’s like they’re doing a live performance for the ocean, on the highest of a mountain. It was unimaginable. And we did that day by day, taking part in out within the [open], they usually didn’t wish to depart. It was, like, the perfect expertise.”
Take a look on the interview clip in query – courtesy of Reddit person ‘officiallylauder’ – beneath:
Rubin and The Stokes first joined forces in 2017, once they started engaged on ‘The New Irregular’. The album was launched in April of 2020 as their sixth full-length effort, supported by singles like ‘At The Door’, ‘Dangerous Selections’, ‘Brooklyn Bridge To Refrain’ and ‘The Adults Are Speaking’.
In a four-star assessment of ‘The New Irregular’, NME’s Ella Kemp wrote: “There’s a lot to reward on the file, regardless that the listener has been licensed as a second thought. Like its cowl, the Jean-Michel Basquiat art work ‘Fowl On Cash’, it’s spiky however fairly gorgeous.
“It is a cool album, the type you begrudgingly develop to like, even when it by no means cared about you. And isn’t that quintessentially The Strokes?”