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Is This It?

by Strokes

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2001

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Overall Rating: 3.3693 Is This It? is ranked overall as 3.3693 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.3785 Is This It? has an avg. critic score of 3.3785 out of 4 stars

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Stylus Magazine

When The Strokes' popularity soared about a year ago I didn't know anything about them. Except one thing. The hype. It's a fact that normally makes me reluctant towards giving the hyped band in question a real chance. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

''Is This It'' bows down before all the trademarks of pre-1977 rock: off-kilter guitar solos, half-buried vocals (à la ''Louie, Louie''), attitude-heavy slurring (by singer Julian Casablancas), primitive tom-tom rhythms (shades of the Velvets' Moe Tucker), and the raw, muddy sonics of garage-band 45s. ...more

All Music Guide

Able to make the timeworn themes of sex, drugs, and rock & roll and the basic guitars-drum-bass lineup seem new and vital again, the Strokes may or may not be completely arty and calculated, but that doesn't prevent Is This It? from being an exciting, compulsively listenable debut... ...more

Rolling Stone

For now, the Strokes have mastered their style; they have yet to come up with the substance to match it.... But the music leaves no doubts - more joyful and intense than anything else I've heard this year. ...more

Stylus Magazine

The whirlwind around The Strokes seems to put off as many people as it attracts. Not since Oasis in 1994 has a band received so much attention from the music press for so little output. ...more

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Neumu.net

What matters, what it all boils down to, is The Strokes write incredibly powerful songs, and those who allow the media -- or better yet their reaction to the media, what I call the anti media -- to influence their opinions are missing out....read the complete review at Neumu.net

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Nude As The News

Comparisons aside, though, the Strokes do cultivate a sound that's enough theirs to make me wonder what their second and third albums will sound like....read the complete review at Nude As The News

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