Is This It
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Released | July 30, 2001 | |||
Recorded | March–April 2001 | |||
Studio | Transporterraum, New York City | |||
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Length | 36:28 | |||
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Producer | Gordon Raphael | |||
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Is This It is the debut studio album by American rock band the Strokes. It was first released on July 30, 2001 in Australia, with RCA Records handling the release internationally and Rough Trade Records handling the United Kingdom release. It was recorded at Transporterraum in New York City with producer Gordon Raphael during March and April 2001. For their debut, the band strived to capture a simple sound that was not significantly enhanced in the studio. Building on their 2001 EP The Modern Age, the band members molded compositions largely through live takes during recording sessions, while lead singer and songwriter Julian Casablancas continued to detail the lives and relationships of urban youth.
After completing the album, the Strokes embarked on a promotional world tour before its release. The album was released progressively to coincide with their tour dates, with it being released in Japan on August 22 and the United Kingdom on August 27. The album's cover photograph was deemed too sexually explicit for the US market, and was replaced there. After the September 11 attacks, the American compact disc release was delayed from September 25 to October 9 and had its track list amended, with the song "New York City Cops" being removed and replaced with the newly written track "When It Started"; however, the American vinyl release still includes the track as a result of its release falling on September 11. Three singles were released from the album: "Hard to Explain", "Last Nite", and "Someday".
Promoted by the music press for its twin-guitar interplay and melodic, pop-influenced sound, Is This It peaked at number 33 on the
Background
In 1998, the Strokes consisted of singer Julian Casablancas, guitarist
By 2000, all band members had part-time jobs and were practicing new material several nights a week in a small hired recording space. In the fall of that year, their demo caught the attention of Ryan Gentles, a talent booker at New York City's Mercury Lounge. He scheduled the Strokes for four December gigs.[4] With support from personal mentor JP Bowersock and producer Gordon Raphael, the band recorded three tracks which later appeared on Is This It: "The Modern Age", "Last Nite", and "Barely Legal". British label Rough Trade Records was impressed by the songs and released them as a January 2001 extended play titled The Modern Age. Music press reaction was very positive and the Strokes embarked on a sold-out UK tour, followed by US support slots for alternative rock groups Doves and Guided by Voices.[6] Gentles quit his job to manage the band full-time and, in March 2001, the Strokes signed to RCA Records after a protracted bidding war.[4]
Recording and production
After the deal with RCA, the Strokes started working with Gil Norton, who had produced recordings for alternative rock group Pixies. Although the two parties developed a rapport, the band were unhappy with the results of preliminary sessions which they thought sounded "too clean" and "too pretentious"; the three songs recorded with Norton were scrapped.[7] Like The Modern Age, Is This It was eventually recorded with Gordon Raphael at Transporterraum in Manhattan's East Village in New York City.[8] The studio is located in a basement with poor lighting, but despite its poor infrastructure, it includes modern Pro Tools digital audio workstation hardware. The Strokes liked Raphael's lack of ego and formed a good collaborative relationship with the producer.[9]
"I just wanted to write music that could touch people. [As] a songwriter, you play a few chords and sing a melody that's been done a thousand times, and now you're a singer-songwriter. I think it takes a little more than that to do something that matters. And I wish I could write a song where all the parts work. When you hear a song like that, it's like finding a new friend."[4]
—Julian Casablancas
Before recording started, the Strokes and Raphael organized a listening session with the musical material Hammond and Casablancas had brought to show the tone and energy they liked. At the meeting, the band said they wanted to go in a different direction than contemporary music. Casablancas wanted Is This It to sound like "a band from the past that took a time trip into the future to make their record". The approach for the album became more studied than that of The Modern Age. The group wanted the majority of songs to sound like them playing live, while they requested a few others to be like "a weird, in-studio production with a drum machine, even though no drum machine was used". The songs of the latter type were done track-by-track and were crafted into non-standard rock arrangements. Raphael's background in industrial music played a large part in the album's conception.[8]
During six weeks in the studio, the Strokes' gritty sound became the emphasis of the sessions.
Inspired by the Velvet Underground's production and the direct approach of
Composition
Lyrics
Casablancas's writing discusses life and relationships of young people in New York City. Exemplifying this theme, "The Modern Age" is a rant about the oddness of modern life.[13] "Barely Legal" concerns a girl who has just arrived at the age of consent. Discussing its risqué nature, Moretti has stated, "It should be taken the way you interpret it. The lyrics mean different things to different people."[12] "Alone, Together" continues the sexual theme by dropping hints about cunnilingus,[14] while the yelp at the start of "New York City Cops" was created as a pastiche of rock band Aerosmith. "Soma" takes influence from the fictional drug in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. Here Casablancas is discussing drug use to fit in with the cool crowd.[15] During the studio sessions, Casablancas introduced tracks with comic lines and some quips were used when the album was mixed.[16]
Music
Musically, Is This It has been described as a
The fifth track on the record, "Someday", is infused with
Packaging
The international
For the American market and the October 2001 release, the cover art of Is This It was changed to a psychedelic photograph of subatomic particle tracks in a bubble chamber. The image first appeared on new age artist Bruce Becvar's 1988 album The Nature of Things. The same image appears on the cover of The Scientist as Rebel by theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson. A portion of the image also appeared on Prince's 1990 album Graffiti Bridge. RCA product manager Dave Gottlieb commented that "it was straight up a band decision", while Gentles indicated that Casablancas had wanted it to appear globally. According to the band's manager, the frontman phoned him before the Japan and Europe release and said, "I found something even cooler than the ass picture." At the time, the Lane photograph was already at the presses and was included in the July and August 2001 versions.[24] The Strokes' 2003 biography mentions the fear of objections from America's conservative retail industry and right-wing lobby as reasons for the artwork's alteration.[16]
The group deliberately left out the grammatically correct question mark from the album title because aesthetically, "it did not look right".[16] The booklet insert contains stylized separate portraits of the Strokes, Raphael, Gentles, and Bowersock, all photographed by Lane.[10]
Promotion and release
Following the album's completion, the Strokes performed at Philadelphia music venues every Wednesday of May 2001.[25] The band revealed the track listing of Is This It on May 15. A June headlining tour of the UK and Ireland was also confirmed, and almost immediately after the announcement, some venues sold out.[26] "Hard to Explain" was named as the album's first single with a release date of June 25 to coincide with the tour.[25] At the time, Moretti stated, "In Britain, people are much more responsive ... I'm so psyched to be going back, every show we played people were enjoying it. There's a lot of people here in America who think we've had it too easy, but they have never really heard the music."[26]
Following the Strokes' June 20 show in Glasgow, Moretti suffered a fall and was hospitalized with a broken hand.[27] Two of the last five UK gigs were canceled and a friend of the group, Matt Romano, flew to England to replace the injured drummer in the remaining concerts. In a press release, Gentles explained, "They will only carry on if they feel that they are 100% after rehearsing with Matt, as they wouldn't offer anything less to their fans."[28] With Romano as a substitute, the band managed to satisfy the outstanding commitments.[29] Live recorded versions of "Hard to Explain", its B-side "New York City Cops", and "Last Nite" from The Modern Age aired on the UK music show Top of the Pops on July 6, 2001.[30] The Strokes headlined the T in the Park festival in Scotland on July 7 after alternative rock group Weezer pulled out.[31] A large part of the month of July was spent performing in cities in the West Coasts of America and Canada.[30]
Is This It was released in Australia on July 30, 2001, to capitalize on the Strokes' recent tour of the country. The record was streamed on Australian websites by the band's distributor
The song "Last Nite" was released as the second single from the album, in November 2001. The single was the group's first to enter the American charts, reaching the top five on the
Reception
Critical
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 91/100[42] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [43] |
Blender | [44] |
Entertainment Weekly | A−[45] |
The Guardian | [46] |
NME | [47] |
Pitchfork | 9.1/10[48] |
Q | [49] |
Rolling Stone | [50] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [51] |
The Village Voice | A−[52] |
Is This It received widespread critical acclaim; aggregating website
Mark Lepage of Blender claimed that Is This It is similar to the works of 1970s bands the Velvet Underground, Television and the Feelies.[44] Pitchfork's Ryan Schreiber suggested that, while the work of the Velvet Underground is an obvious inspiration for the Strokes, the band's only similarity to the other groups is the confidence with which they perform.[48] AllMusic's Heather Phares concluded, "Granted, their high-fashion appeal and faultless influences ... have 'critics' darlings' written all over them. But like the similarly lauded Elastica and Supergrass before them, the Strokes don't rehash the sounds that inspire them—they remake them in their own image."[43]
Is This It was named the best album of 2001 by
Commercial
Is This It was a commercial success and entered the UK Albums Chart at number two after first week sales of 48,393 copies.
Is This It was certified gold by the
Legacy
Influence
"Probably the most important rock album of the past 10 years: it prised the zeitgeist away from nu-metal, restored the pre-eminence of rattling neo-new-wave, and was the chief catalyzing influence on Arctic Monkeys."[78]
—The Guardian in 2007, on the importance of Is This It to guitar bands and alternative music during the 2000s
Gary Mulholland of
Jed Gottlieb of the
Accolades
In 2003, Is This It was ranked at number seven in NME's editorial staff list of the 100 Best Albums.[89] In 2005, Spin placed it at number 100 in its list of the 100 Greatest Albums, 1985–2005,[90] while Stylus included it at number four in its list of the Top 50 Albums of 2000–2005.[82] In 2006, Is This It was ranked at number 48 by The Observer in the publication's list of The 50 Albums That Changed Music,[84] while Mojo featured it at number 33 in its list of 100 Modern Classics, 1993–2006.[91] In 2007, Q included the record at number 21 in its editorial staff list of the 21 Albums That Changed Music.[92] In 2008, Entertainment Weekly ranked it at number 34 in its list of the 100 Best Albums, 1983–2008.[93]
In 2009, Is This It was ranked as the best record of the 2000s by NME, ahead of the Libertines' Up the Bracket,[94] and at number two by Rolling Stone, behind Radiohead's Kid A, in their respective lists decided by the publications' staff and music industry members.[83] FACT placed it at number two behind Burial's Untrue in its editorial list of the 100 Best: Albums of the Decade,[81] while Billboard featured it at number three in its critics' picks of the 20 Best Albums of the 2000s.[95] The same year, The Observer included Is This It at number four in its Albums of the Decade list,[79] while Uncut ranked it at number five in its list of The 150 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century.[96] The Times placed it at number six in its list of The 100 Best Pop Albums of the Noughties,[97] while Pitchfork featured it at number seven in its staff list of The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s.[88] In 2010, Stylus ranked Is This It at number six in its list of the Top Albums of the previous decade.[98] The record is included in both The Guardian's "1000 Albums To Hear Before You Die" and the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[78][99] In 2019, Is This It was ranked second on The Guardian's 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list.[100] Rolling Stone ranked it at number 367 in its 2003 list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, significantly raising the album's ranking to number 199 in the 2012 revision.[101][102] In the 2020 reboot of the list, Rolling Stone raised the rank of Is This It higher to number 114.[103] In 2024, Apple Music ranked it at number 68 on its 100 Best Albums list.[104]
Track listing
Original release
All tracks are written by Julian Casablancas
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Is This It" | 2:31 |
2. | "The Modern Age" | 3:28 |
3. | "Soma" | 2:33 |
4. | "Barely Legal" | 3:54 |
5. | "Someday" | 3:03 |
6. | "Alone, Together" | 3:08 |
7. | "Last Nite" | 3:13 |
8. | "Hard to Explain" | 3:44 |
9. | "New York City Cops" | 3:31 |
10. | "Trying Your Luck" | 3:22 |
11. | "Take It or Leave It" | 3:16 |
Total length: | 36:28 |
- Notes
- "New York City Cops" was replaced with "When It Started" (2:55) for United States and other post-September 11, 2001, releases.
- A bonus DVD video portion of the reissue contains music videos for the album's three singles and two previously unreleased live performances of the Strokes on MTV2.
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.[105][106][107]
The Strokes
- Julian Casablancas – vocals
- Nick Valensi – guitar
- Albert Hammond Jr. – guitar
- Nikolai Fraiture – bass guitar
- Fabrizio Moretti – drums
Additional personnel
- Gordon Raphael – production
- J. P. Bowersock – consultation (credited as "guru")
- Greg Calbi – mastering
- Colin Lane – photography
- Ryan Gentles – management
- Steve Ralbovsky – A+R
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[131] | 2× Platinum | 140,000‡ |
Canada (Music Canada)[132] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[133] | Platinum | 20,000‡ |
Japan (RIAJ)[134] | Gold | 100,000^ |
New Zealand (RMNZ)[135] | Gold | 7,500^ |
Sweden (GLF)[136] | Platinum | 80,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[137] | 2× Platinum | 600,000^ |
United States (RIAA)[138] | Platinum | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
Release history
Country | Date | Format | Label |
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Australia[32] | July 30, 2001 | CD | RCA |
Japan[33] | August 22, 2001 | ||
United Kingdom[34] | August 27, 2001 | CD, vinyl | Rough Trade |
United States[36][35] | September 11, 2001 | Vinyl | RCA |
October 9, 2001 | CD |
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