Music can be like an arrow. Taking you unerringly back to a time and place. The Strokes. Is This It? Takes m e back to Wroclaw, Poland in the summer of 2001. I was studying on an intensive teacher training course. Embarked on a new road. Going out with a Ukranian woman on my course. Doing everything by the skin of my teeth. Not knowing what I was doing. Going back to my flat in the evening. Listening to Is This It?
It still sounds utterly wonderful. It took me back to those glorious CBGBs records and attitude. A place I never imagined we'd go back to. The Strokes always refuted the Television influence. But it was essential DNA for me. Along with the whole roster. It was a glorious rebirth. A reaffirmtion.
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