Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes

Clocking in at 36 minutes, Is This It? packs its perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are Last Nite with its insistent motown backbeat and choppy johnny thunders-like guitar solo, Barely Legal, sounding like 1980s-era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly Someday with its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break-up. While frontman Julian Casablancas drawls like Lou Reed through a busted intercom, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud as their sinewy chords intertwine to great effect on the angular The Modern Age and equally neurotic Alone, Together.

The Strokes

Is This It - Import

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Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes
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$36.99

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Released 04/18/2014Catalog Number

196588016912

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Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes
LP

$32.99

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Released 12/29/2023Catalog Number

194397844719

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Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes
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$15.99

Released 12/04/2015Catalog Number

RCVE368045.2

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The Strokes

Is This It - Import

Rough Trade
Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes
LP +

$36.99

Red
Released 04/18/2014Catalog Number

196588016912

Learn more
Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes
LP

$32.99

Black
Released 12/29/2023Catalog Number

194397844719

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Album artwork for Is This It - Import by The Strokes
CD

$15.99

Released 12/04/2015Catalog Number

RCVE368045.2

Learn more

Clocking in at 36 minutes, Is This It? packs its perfect length with stellar songs that draw inspiration from all over the map. Among the many highlights are Last Nite with its insistent motown backbeat and choppy johnny thunders-like guitar solo, Barely Legal, sounding like 1980s-era Cure fronted by a saucy Iggy Pop, and the jangly Someday with its hairshirt of vulnerability from a bad break-up. While frontman Julian Casablancas drawls like Lou Reed through a busted intercom, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr do Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd proud as their sinewy chords intertwine to great effect on the angular The Modern Age and equally neurotic Alone, Together.