The Strokes - Is This It

Blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype from the British press, The Strokes prove to be one of the few groups deserving of their glowing reviews. Granted, their high-fashion appeal and faultless influences -- Television, The Stooges, and especially Lou Reed and The Velvets -- have "critics' darlings" written all over them. But like the similarly lauded Elastica and Supergrass before them, The Strokes don't rehash the sounds that inspire them -- they remake them in their own image. Read More