IS THIS IT?

June 2001. The NME is moist with excitement as the band they have hyped beyond belief are finally releasing their debut single.To be fair, for once the hype seemed justified as both tracks on the CD turn out to be pretty decent:-mp3 : The Strokes - Hard To Explainmp3 : The Strokes - New York City Cops The Strokes had first come to notice via a demo EP in January 2001 which sparked off a bidding war among all sorts of record labels. And in a move akin to that by The Smiths two decades previously,...

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