You couldn't make this stuff up. New Yoik attitude is back with a new album from a duo called QTY who trace the line from Reed through Thunders, Verlaine and Casablancas and on from this to 2018 as if nothing at all has really changed since even though we know very well of course that it has.
Some of these songs come from their self-titled debut, released at the tail end of last year, some don't. In any case they're all of a piece. They all have that ready, lazy drawl that very much hangs out in the same schoolyard as The Strokes used to, as if one break time Casablancas had decided to form a band with Kimya from the Moldy Peaches. So while originality is an issue, hey it was an issue with The Strokes too but that was a large part of their ready, languid charm.
Well written songs, all as laid back as you could possibly want. All coffee shop cool and minor recreational drug habits. QTY won't change the world the way The Strokes did but they will make those who love this kind of stuff as much as they did the first time they ever heard it, rather happy.
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