All The Time

With the release of a new Strokes album expected next week, the band released one song from the album. That song is called All The Time. I only got around to listening to it this morning. My initial thought was that it's definitely good. I don't want to criticize it too much because I do really think it is good. But to me, it's just like every other Strokes song. It sounds like the rest of them and you can't understand anything that Julian Casablancas says like most of them. I was a little disappointed by the end of the song because my opinion had gone from it being good to me hoping that the rest of the album would be different. When I listen to a new album, I want to hear a difference in the style from the last album. Maybe the difference is very slight, but I just want to hear a change. I don't want the exact same sounding songs that the band has released forever because that bores me and steers me away from the band. I feel like The Strokes have many good songs. They also have many mediocre songs. I would probably place this one in the middle but closer to mediocre. I really am glad to hear that the band is back but my expectations were not met with this one song. I definitely may need to lower them at this point but I'm hoping to enjoy a few songs on the album a lot. Here is the link for the song. Listen to it and judge it for yourself: