Albert Hammond Jr says The Strokes’ ‘Angles’ was originally “more Stones-y” but ended up “flat” and “all over the place”

Albert Hammond Jr has revealed that The Strokes‘ ‘Angles’ originally sounded “more Stones-y”, but said it ultimately ended up “flat” and “all over the place”. READ MORE: The Strokes – ‘Reality Awaits’ review: on playful, powerful form The guitarist looked back on the New York band’s 2011 fourth album – the follow-up to 2006’s ‘First Impressions Of Earth’ – during a new interview on Rick Rubin‘s podcast, Tetragrammaton. Rubin produced The Strokes’ latest two records, 2020’s ‘The New Abnormal’ and this year’s ‘Reality Awaits’ – the latter of which was released last week. Looking back on the fractured process of making ‘Angles’, Hammond Jr remembered: “Well, it was like two parts; we did a whole version of the album with [producer] Gus [Oberg], who does our front of house [sound]. “It felt more Stones-y; it was really cool. All in a room, in a rehearsal space, like this, really live, dirty, but I think we were afraid to put it out.” But this version wasn’t what fans ended up hearing on the final album. “Afterwards, it was like, ‘I wish it was like that’,” Hammond Jr continued. “I think we were trying to polish something too much.” According to the musician, The Strokes made ‘Angles “t...