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Despite this quintet’s prep-school background, their sound comes from the same primordial ooze that spawned big apple legends like the New York Dolls, the Modern Lovers and the Velvet Underground. Clocking in at 36 minutes,Is This Itpacks its perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map.
Among the many highlights areLast Nitewith its insistent motown backbeat and choppy johnny thunders-like guitar solo,Barely Legal, sounding like 1980s-era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the janglySomedaywith its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break-up. While frontman Julian Casablancas (son of elite models founder john) drawls like Lou Reed through a busted intercom, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud as their sinewy chords intertwine to great effect on the angularThe Modern Ageand equally neuroticAlone, Together.Originally released in 2001 on Rough Trade.
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