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The Strokes.

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The Strokes — “Lonely in the Future”

"Lonely in the Future" is a new single from The Strokes, and it does what the band does best when operating at full voltage: it makes urgency feel like a philosophical position. Driven by overdriven rhythm guitar, a punchy locked-in drum kit, and a higher-register melodic guitar line that cuts through the low end like a needle through cloth, the track plants itself firmly in the post-punk revival tradition the band helped define — then uses that familiar chassis to carry something more reflective. The lead vocal arrives strained and conversational, insisting that the past and present are further apart than they look.

By Cal Mercer7.6

Single · Indie Rock / Alternative Rock

The Strokes — “Dine N'Dash”

"Dine N'Dash," the latest single from The Strokes, arrives draped in the band's familiar grit — arpeggiated clean guitar against a heavier, overdriven melodic line, drums that push without rushing — but the emotional register is darker than their usual restless-youth cool. This is a song about regret that has already set in, a narrator looking back at violence and mourning with nowhere comfortable to land. It's not a departure so much as a deepening: the Strokes machinery running at the same mid-tempo clip, now pointed somewhere more somber.

By Cal Mercer8.8

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