Julian Casablancas shares replace on The Strokes seventh album

Julian Casablancas has shared an replace on the progress of The Strokes’ seventh album.

His feedback observe producer Rick Rubin revealing throughout an look on The Joe Rogan Expertise, that he’s engaged on a brand new album with the band, having just lately accomplished a recording session with them in Costa Rica.

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“Killed it on Joe Rogan,” Casablancas wrote. “True, Strokes’ve jammed and began some stuff, however we’re nonetheless so extraordinarily v far off from being even near any kinda remotely-near-doneness.”

He went to put in writing, “Get pleasure from this clip of the best (and hottest) of all time, as momentary solace Lil Richard” within the emoji-filled caption of the publish, which featured a video of the singer.

Casablancas added: “Lotta leaping to conclusions, “verify again in a yr or [two] actually.”

Yesterday (October 12) noticed Rubin seem on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the place he spoke about upcoming initiatives. Referring to The Strokes’ seventh album he stated: “A couple of 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.

“In order 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 unbelievable. And we did that day-after-day, taking part in out within the [open], they usually didn’t need to go away. It was, like, the perfect expertise.”

Rubin and the New York band 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 ‘At The Door’, ‘Dangerous Selections’, ‘Brooklyn Bridge To Refrain’ and ‘The Adults Are Speaking’.

In a four-star evaluate of ‘The New Irregular’, NME’s Ella Kemp wrote: “There’s lots to reward on the file, though the listener has been licensed as a second thought. Like its cowl, the Jean-Michel Basquiat paintings ‘Fowl On Cash’, it’s spiky however fairly gorgeous.

“This can be a cool album, the sort you begrudgingly develop to like, even when it by no means cared about you. And isn’t that quintessentially The Strokes?”