The Strokes have played it live several times in recent years, at least since 2021. It started out as a rough jam, then they refined it and now they've released it.
It's called Falling out of Loveis a melancholy ballad of over six minutes that Julian Casablancas sings with his voice filtered by an Auto-Tune type effect and is the second taken from the album Reality Awaits which the Strokes will release on June 26, with Rick Rubin producing. Tomorrow they will play it at Late Show by Stephen Colbert live.
If on the single cover designed by Glenn Pruyn there is a turntable that looks like a spaceship, the album cover is taken from the series Cowboys that Richard Prince produced by photographing with a 35mm the images of the famous “Marlboro Man” advertising campaign, inspired in turn by a Life report on Texas cowboys (the story at this link).
The Strokes will perform on October 17th at the Unipol Arena in Bologna, the only Italian date.
