This past week, The Strokes released "Under Cover Of Darkness," their first single off of their upcoming album Angles. 

It doesn't seem like the band lost much of themselves over the five or so years since their last release, which is quite encouraging. The song is still filled with catchy guitar riffs, and that classic Casablancas sound.

In a recent interview, (guitarist) Nick Valensi, in response to a question about if the album will please fans who have been waiting so long, responded:

"I feel like it’s gonna be impossible for us to make music that’ll live up five years of nothing. It’s kind of that Chinese Democracy syndrome. You take that much time off.. no matter what you do it’s not gonna be as good as people want it to be. I feel like no matter what the record is, or how hard we worked on it, or how much we like it, it’s not gonna live up to people’s expectations only because of those five years between the last one and this one. If we had just released this a year or two after the last one, I imagine it would have gone better."

With that being said, Angles is looking to be a pretty great album, which will, probably, please most fans of the garage rock band.