The Strokes - Room On Fire

The Strokes - Room On Fire

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Limited Edition Blue Vinyl

Room On Fire keeps the jacket on. No reinvention panic. No grand statement. No second-album bloat. Just The Strokes, tighter and sharper, cutting through another set of songs like they already know the room is watching. The guitars still snap. The drums still sit dry and straight. Julian Casablancas still sounds half-bored, half-brilliant, singing like the party is almost over but he is not leaving yet. Reptilia bites. 12:51 glows under neon. Automatic Stop leans cool and wounded. Under Control slows the whole thing down without losing the stare. Short songs. Locked grooves. Perfectly scuffed edges. Room On Fire is not trying to escape Is This It. It just turns the heat up.

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Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

Originally released on 21 October 2003, Room On Fire is the second studio album from The Strokes. Released through RCA Records, it followed the huge impact of Is This It and found the New York band refining their tight, stylish garage rock sound rather than tearing it apart.

Produced by Gordon Raphael, who also worked on Is This It, the album keeps The Strokes’ sound lean, immediate and unmistakably direct. Earlier sessions with Nigel Godrich were abandoned before the band returned to Raphael, keeping the record close to the stripped-back tension of their debut.

Featuring What Ever Happened?, Reptilia, 12:51, Automatic Stop, Meet Me in the Bathroom, Under Control and The End Has No End, the album moves with sharp economy. Nothing overstays. Nothing gets overcooked.

This Limited Edition Blue Vinyl pressing gives one of the key early-2000s indie rock records a collectable edge.

Tracklist.

Side A:

  1. What Ever Happened?
  2. Reptilia
  3. Automatic Stop
  4. 12:51
  5. You Talk Way Too Much

Side B:

  1. Between Love & Hate
  2. Meet Me in the Bathroom
  3. Under Control
  4. The Way It Is
  5. The End Has No End
  6. I Can't Win
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Blue

Label
RCA
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
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