The Strokes - The New Abnormal (Vinyl LP) A vinyl record partially pulled from its sleeve, featuring a highly detailed, colorful graffiti-style abstract cover illustration with a black bird and blue, yellow, and white elements, set against a neutral light gray background.
The Strokes - The New Abnormal (Vinyl LP) Abstract graffiti-style record cover artwork featuring a large black bird silhouette over a bright blue background, with white scribbled lines, yellow blocks, red and green accents, and handwritten text

The Strokes - The New Abnormal (Vinyl LP)

$70.00 AUD
Indie

Printed Inner Sleeve • Foldout Poster • Download Card

‘The Adults Are Talking’ opens on a tight, clipped beat and two guitars locking together, the vocal climbing into falsetto for the chorus. ‘Selfless’ slows right down. ‘Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus’ runs on a bright, bouncing synth line. ‘Bad Decisions’ borrows its hook from 1980 and makes no secret of it. ‘Eternal Summer’ stretches past six minutes, falsetto verses over a loose, funky groove. ‘At The Door’ drops the drums entirely, leaving synth pads and a lone voice. ‘Ode To The Mets’ starts on a spoken cue to the drummer, then lets the band build slowly around it.

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The details.

Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

The New Abnormal is the sixth studio album from The Strokes, the New York band whose indie and alternative rock helped define the early 2000s. Released by Cult Records and RCA on 10 April 2020, it was their first album in seven years, following Comedown Machine in 2013.

The band recorded it at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu with producer Rick Rubin. The line-up is unchanged from their debut: Julian Casablancas on vocals, Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr on guitars, Nikolai Fraiture on bass and Fabrizio Moretti on drums.

The record leans into synths and falsetto alongside the band’s interlocking guitars. ‘Bad Decisions’ carries a co-writing credit for Billy Idol and Tony James, as its chorus borrows the melody of Generation X’s ‘Dancing With Myself’. ‘At The Door’ was the lead single.

The album won the Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2021. Its cover is Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1981 painting Bird On Money.

This edition is a single LP in a PVC outer sleeve, with a printed inner sleeve, a foldout poster and a download card.

For where it all began, go back to their 2001 debut Is This It and its 2003 follow-up Room On Fire, and the band reunited with Rubin for their next album, Reality Awaits, in 2026.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. The Adults Are Talking
  2. Selfless
  3. Brooklyn Bridge To Chorus
  4. Bad Decisions
  5. Eternal Summer

Side B

  1. At The Door
  2. Why Are Sundays So Depressing
  3. Not The Same Anymore
  4. Ode To The Mets
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Black

Label
Cult Records / RCA
Barcode

194397058819

Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
10 April 2020
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