The Strokes: Is This It Vinyl LP

The Strokes: Is This It [RCA]

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Is This It, the Strokes' 2001 debut and the record that made New York cool again: "Last Nite," "Someday," "Hard to Explain" and "The Modern Age."

Why you'll love it

Is This It kickstarted the early-2000s garage rock revival and regularly tops lists of the best albums of the century so far.

This edition

Is This It on vinyl
RCA pressing

About the album

The music business had been looking for a "next Nirvana" since Nevermind first struck in 1991, and in 2001 it arguably found it in the Strokes. Is This It didn't light up the charts in quite the same way as Nevermind, of course, but it did come as a breath of fresh air for music fans looking for something different from the nu-metal and big pop flooding the airwaves at the turn of the millennium.

True, the Strokes accomplished that industry "reset" by mining the guitar-band history of their native New York City for inspiration (a healthy reverence for the scrappier end of the Velvet Underground and Television prevails on this record), but after Is This It came along a whole lotta bands suddenly wanted to sound like the Strokes, and New York was a musical hotspot again. Only the White Stripes wielded as much up-from-the-underground influence over mainstream tastes at the time. This one holds up.

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Tracklist

Tracks
1. Is This It
2. The Modern Age
3. Soma
4. Barely Legal
5. Someday
6. Alone, Together
7. Last Nite
8. Hard to Explain
9. New York City Cops
10. Trying Your Luck
11. Take It or Leave It