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The Strokes begin recording fourth album with U2, Beck producer

Band kick off sessions in New York this week

February 3, 2010 | 7 Comments
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The Strokes have begun recording their fourth album with producer Joe Chiccarelli in New York.

According to their official website Thestrokes.com the band began working with the U2, Beck and Bjork collaborator at the start of this week (February 1).

The band say they are recording at New York's Avatar Studios with Gus Oberg engineering the record.

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Comments (7)

cowie86

Feb 3, 2010

Is this the same 4th album that they told us they were making three years ago? And now they tell us they're only just starting it...Julian and Bert need to pull their socks up.

shityourlegsoff

Feb 3, 2010

The strokes rock my world!!!!!!!!!!

Willy Plonka

Feb 3, 2010

oh for fucks sake.............so for the next 3 months...........we are going to get a blow by blow account of the making of possibly the most Turgid pieces of shit to hit the shops in years.............bring back The Manics for fucks sake.

CrashingBlimp

Feb 3, 2010

finally!

swope

Feb 4, 2010

there's a new strokes song off the album on you tube from dublin last december

strokes98

Feb 5, 2010

HELL YEAH! so so so so so EXCITED :) Best band to grace this earth as far as I'm concerned.swope that's not a new strokes song, that was a new Julian song.