@vipervinyl: Whats your favourite Strokes' chorus? “The Adults Are Talking” feels like the perfect opening statement for The Strokes’ return to form. When The New Abnormal arrived in 2020, it felt like The Strokes had rediscovered something that made their early records so captivating in the first place. After years of experimenting with different sounds and directions, the album brought back that unmistakable combination of angular guitars, laid-back vocals, restless rhythms, and melancholic songwriting but with a much more mature and reflective edge. And “The Adults Are Talking” sets the tone almost immediately. The shimmering guitars, Julian Casablancas’ detached vocals, and the song’s hypnotic rhythm create this strange feeling of nostalgia for something that never quite existed. It sounds unmistakably like The Strokes, yet it also feels like a band looking back at their own legacy and figuring out where they fit in the present. There’s something especially fitting about the song’s title, too. Beneath the cool exterior is a sense of frustration and disconnection the feeling of watching the world change around you while wondering whether anyone is actually listening. It captures that tension between generations, expectations, and the feeling of growing older without necessarily having all the answers. The New Abnormal was a reminder that The Strokes didn’t need to recreate Is This It to sound like The Strokes again. Instead, they took everything that made their music special the guitars, the grooves, the understated cool, the bittersweet melodies and filtered it through the perspective of a band that had been around for nearly two decades. “The Adults Are Talking” is arguably the perfect example of that evolution: familiar enough to feel like a homecoming, but different enough to prove they weren’t simply looking backwards. #thestrokes #strokes #indiemusic #juliancasablancas#indierock

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