Julian Casablancas | Pop review

Metropolitan University, LeedsSingers from famous bands often use solo careers to pursue that long-threatened avant-garde venture or make that concept album about fish. However, Strokes singer Julian Casablancas's debut, Phrazes for the Young, is full of the vim and cool of the New York band, with added textures from 1980s pop and untypically candid lyrics. Not that you'd know any of that from this shambolic show.His band seem so unfamiliar with one another, they might well have met in the lift...

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