Making Of The Strokes' 'Angles' Was "Awful" Says Nick Valensi
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Thursday, 10 March 2011 |
Written by Dave Ball
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The build up to the release of The Strokes' much anticipated fourth album ‘Angles’ has been riddled with comments and mumblings of a fractured process throughout and now guitarist Nick Valensi has described the process of recording it as ‘awful’.
The New York quintet have made no secret of the fact that there has been a simmering tension throughout the process and Valensi followed up the statement, made when speaking to pitchfork.com, by stating he won’t work like this in future.
"I won't do the next album we make like this, no way. It was awful – just awful. Working in a fractured way, not having a singer there."
The latter statement is a reference to Julian Casablancas insistence on recording his vocals alone and therefore not being present at some of the sessions. Casablancas detachment was often cited as one of the things that gave the band its edge on previous records but it appears the singer has now created quite a divide within the group.
Valensi elaborated on this saying, "I'd show up certain days and do guitar takes by myself, just me and the engineer. Some of the third album (2006's 'First Impressions Of Earth') was done that way, but at least we were on the same page about what the arrangements and parts were.
"75 percent of this album felt like it was done together and the rest of it was left hanging, like some of us were picking up the scraps and trying to finish a puzzle together."
Despite this Valensi also added that he expected a fifth album to be along fairly soon, confirming a comment made previously by fellow guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. "I feel like we have a better album in us," he said, "and it's going to come out soon."
New album ‘Angles’ will be released on March 21st. The Strokes are also hotly tipped to be one of the soon-to-be-announced headliners for this summers Reading & Leeds festivals.
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