Strokes‘ front man Julian Casablancas told Q Magazine that he stopped The Strokes from returning to the studio to record new materiel earlier in the year.

The New York five piece were planning to begin work on a second new album before the release of Angles and Casablancas decided to nip that idea in the bud, saying:

“I only cancelled the writing session because I told him [Valensi] I wanted to be done with this record first [Angles]. We had a plan for a writing session but we hadn’t finished this record [Angles] by then.”

This has interview coincides with a story Strictly festivals reported earlier in the week that The Strokes had returned to the recording studio this week. Speculation is now rife that the band’s latest sessions are a continuation of the sessions cancelled by Casablancas earlier in the year.

Later in the interview Casablancas continued The Strokes recurring theme of bashing the Angles recording sessions, talking about the uncomfortable atomsphere:

“It’s hard for me sometimes because I do feel like people, if they could, would stab me to get to the top”

Later declaring that Angles would have been more appropriately titled “Frenemies”.