The Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. stunned many people by making the lead single and opening observe from his new album a collaboration with DC rapper Goldlink and experimenting with Auto-Tune. There are extra surprises the place that got here from. Hammond’s new 19-track album Melodies On Hiatus doesn’t drop in full till late June, however the first 9 songs are out now.
“I think this is the best collection of music that I have made,” Hammond wrote in an announcement accompanying Melodies On Hiatus. “I wasn’t trying to make a double album; I wanted to make a deconstruction of a band.” He wrote the album long-distance with Simon Wilcox, who penned lyrics to go along with Hammond’s melodies. Later the assertion continues:
I used to be in a single place after I made the album after which one other place now, and the music and lyrics nonetheless hit as laborious. That’s the that means of it. I wrote it in a technique, life ended up otherwise, and it nonetheless resonates with me. I believe it has a narrative, an arc, and I attempted to make it different musically and melodically so it felt like one thing spanning a profession and never simply an album. This is that this man’s life, sonically.
Hear the primary half of that story under, the place you too can discover the video for brand new single “Old Man.”
The remainder of Melodies On Hiatus is out 6/23 on Red Bull.