New York City Rock, between punk and sleaze, sharp-edged riffs and jazz-styles, ferocious cellar-rumblings and psychedelic escapades. The almost 10-minute-long “No Fun(house)" begins with a Floydesque mood mosaic, changes into standard Stooges mode, both raw and not entirely serious, before finally bringing in a brass section and discharging itself in strangely dissonant sound cascades.
The cover version of the Saints' classic “Messin' With The Kid" has also got class. Next to Sour Jazz, The Strokes seem like one trick ponies.
This is their second LP, and, like the debut is released on vinyl only. It weighs 220 grams and the contents are equally heavy and substantial.
RATING: Four stars (out of five)
ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE