Lancelot's Prams' Radio Programs: 'Angles' by The Strokes (2011)

Your Favourite Featured Album for Tuesday 21st June 2011, 1.30 - 3.30 pm (AEST) was :

"Angles", by The Strokes (2011)

* Where were you when you first heard songs from this album?
* What does this album remind you of?
* Who were you with when you first heard music from this album?
* Why does this albums' music sound special to you?
* What were you doing when you first heard music from this album?
* How does hearing songs from this album make you feel?

The Strokes decided to experiment with various production techniques, and recorded the rest of the album's material with award-winning engineer Gus Oberg at a converted farmhouse near Albert Hammond Jr.'s Port Jervis home in Upstate New York.
It is their first album since the release of 'First Impressions of Earth' in 2006, their longest gap to date between two consecutive studio albums.
Media response to Angles was generally favorable; aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalized rating of 70%, based on 20 critical reviews.
In his four-star review, David Fricke of Rolling Stone explained that the record was "worth the wait", and summed it up as "the first step away from the sound of their instant-classic debut. Instead of the rigid purity of 'Is This It,' the new album nods to the more expansive sound of The Velvet Underground's 1970 record, Loaded." (Source)