Last month, when The Strokes performed at the Roundhouse in London, Julian Casablancas told the rapturous crowd: `I know what people wanna hear, and I hate giving it to them.` Is this flash of self-awareness a sign that The Strokes, now all in their late thirties and early forties, are finally growing up? It´s been 19 years since their seminal debut `Is This It´, and with album number six, `The New Abnormal´, they´re still five of the slickest white men in guitar music - but now they´re older and wiser, and that´s not necessarily a bad thing. `I am having a selfishly good time,` Casablancas admitted at that gig, before double-checking: `But are you also having a good time?` The answer,...
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