The Strokes Ready to Record New Album
In a new interview with Noisey, Julian Casablancas has said that his relationship with The Strokes 
“is good now” and that new music is in the works. The Strokes last released Comedown Machine in 2013.
“It’s the first time we’ve been exclusively writing since Comedown Machine,” explained Casablancas. “We’re planning on recording stuff. I still think we could do cool things and I’ll do that. I’d like to do both [bands] really if I could.”
He continued: “Here’s the thing, The Strokes, the relationship is good now. FYF [Festival in 2014] was kind of a moment where for once things were cool for me, but that was very recently. So I’m trying to do stuff to keep it alive, work on it, give it a chance.”
Casablancas, who released the Tyranny album with The Voidz in 2014, went on to note that The Strokes was everything to him years ago, but hinted that failures inside the band derailed his ultimate goals.
“The Strokes was my life,” relayed Casablancas. “It was everything, and I put everything into it—it was a journey that I wanted to keep moving forward, but I couldn’t do that anymore, and it was very frustrating. So it took all this time to getting round to almost starting a new band to get to the point where I can continue to do what I set out to do from the beginning. It’s like if we had the best team ever and before the championship people started celebrating and not practicing. And we still have to play the playoffs.”
“I feel nostalgic sometimes,” he added. “Also I drank too much [during The Strokes era.] I don’t have clear memories. I wish I could go back and do it all sober so I could really just savor everything. I remember stuff, but maybe the things I’d be the most nostalgic for I was a little numbed for how I’d like to remember it.”
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