New Releases - The Strokes: "under Control"

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* The Strokes: "Under Control"

While much of Room on Fire is populated with hyper-compressed riff referencing rock abandon, "Under Control" offers the single moment on the album in which Spin magazine's poster boys take a moment for a breather. We should be glad they did: "Under Control" turned out to be one of the album's best tracks. What could be more fitting to an age plagued within a clamor of moralistic politics, unjust warfare, and barrages of advertisements beating you down, than a song whose main sentiment seems to be, "Shut up, let's fuck." For once, Julian Casablancas' mock Tom Jones swagger of a voice seems appropriate; alongside the chugging treble of dueling Stratoscasters, Casablancas plaintively seduces, "I don't want to change your mind/ I don't want to waste your time." Unfortunately, thousands of years of history prove Casablancas' apolitical individualistic jargon to be sheer jaded idealism, but when the music sounds this good, who really cares, anyway? --Hartley Goldstein

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