What’s the deal with this new Strokes’ song, ‘One Way Trigger’? I was listening to it this afternoon, and realized how old fashioned this synth line sounded. I suppose the song has some usual elements of a Stroke tune in its super-repetitiveness, but this falsetto is not exactly what anyone expected from them.
Julian Casablancas’s voice morphs a few times during the track from high-pitch to normal sounding, and whereas he wouldn’t be the only one giving a try at this, for some reasons this sounds passé and uninspired. You would have told me this was an old lost song recently excavated from A-has’ Norwegian vault, and I would have totally bought it. And this is the problem when you are a rock band from 2012, are you still relevant when you get to be compared with a pop band from 1985? Rock is about guitars, not synth, I understand that they are trying to try something different and that there is some guitar mid-song, but that piercing dancey-electronic synth line is all I could hear when the song was over.
One Way Trigger’ is the first song off the Strokes' upcoming album and visibly not the one announced by Seattle radio station 107.7 (‘All the Time’)… to be fair, it’s true they had mentioned two songs, so may be that’s the one with ‘a more synth driven track’?
Stream ‘One Way Trigger’, and why not? Download it over at The Strokes website.