The Strokes Kick Off 2020 with New Album Announcement
During a special New Year’s Eve performance at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., The Strokes announced that they’ve been working on a new album that should be ready in 2020.
After asking if the crowd wanted to hear a new song, frontman Julian Casablancas broke the news.
“Yeah, we have a new album coming out soon,” he revealed. “Surprise. 2020, here we come. We took the 2010’s – whatever the [explitive] they’re called – we took ’em off, but now, we’ve been unfrozen and we’re back.”
This will be The Strokes’ first full-length album since Comedown Machine in 2013.
The New Year’s Eve show also featured Mac Demarco and Hinds.
The Strokes’ setlist from the show is below:
“Heart in a Cage”
“You Only Live Once”
“The Modern Age”
“New York City Cops”
“The Adults Are Talking”
“Hard to Explain”
“Ize of the World”
“Reptilla”
“Auld Lang Syne”
“Barely Legal”
“Last Nite” (Encore)
“Modern Girls & Old Fashion Men” (Encore)
“Ode to the Mets” (Encore)
“Juicebox” (Encore)
“What Ever Happened?” (Encore)
“Someday” (Encore)
Next year, Casablancas and company will have plenty of new songs to perform live.
