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THE STROKES

The Singles - Volume 1

RCA/LEGACY RECORDINGS

7/10

THE career of every great rock hope comes wildly frontloaded, but rarely as drastically as The Strokes’. The quintet exploded out of Manhattan at the dawn of this millennium with an achingly cool design classic of a debut album that they’ve never come close to matching. Two decades later, they are actually deep into a respectable second act, though it seems they will never again hit the same heights they enjoyed when first conquering the world as the last

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