He also talks being a homebody dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic The Strokes‘ Julian Casablancas yesterday (April 13) named their new album ‘The New Abnormal’ his “fourth favourite record I’ve ever been a part of” in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
When pressed by interviewer Mikael Wood, Casablancas said he ranked the first two Strokes records [‘Is This It?’ and ‘Room On Fire’] above ‘The New Abnormal’, though he declined to name the third. “You’re going to get me in trouble.
Let’s leave it a mystery,” said Casablancas. Casablancas also said that postponing the album’s release from its April 10 street date was raised, “because we can’t really promote it” given travel and social distancing restrictions during the coronavirus