The Strokes have won the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Rock Album. His 2020 LP album The new abnormal broke Sturgill Simpson records (Sound and fury), Fontaines DC (The death of a hero), Michael Kiwanuka (Kiwanuka) and Grace Potter (Light), earning New York City veterans their first Grammy Award.
Speaking to reporters in the virtual press room after their win, the Strokes responded to a question about “the state of rock’n’roll right now,” Casablancas said, “I always make fun of rock’n’roll, so I think it’s funny, cool or appropriate that we won the award. I think people who say things are dead, I feel like their imagination has possibly died … Honestly, there is room for so many genres of music, not necessarily blues rock, please, no more of that. “
The new abnormal marked the Strokes’ first studio album in roughly seven years, after 2013 Descent machine. Debuted one of The new abnormaltracks – “Bad Decisions” – in a 2020 rally for Bernie Sanders. In 2016, the group launched its Future Present Past EP.
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