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The Strokes Cover Album Free Download


Submitted by on July 28, 2011 – 12:49 am | 98 views

Ten different artists have come together in order to create a cover album of The Strokes’ era defining classic Is This It. This release marks the tenth anniversary of their debut, which was first released in Australia on 30th July 2001, but was was released in the UK on 27th August. The album is titled STROKED: A Tribute To Is This It, and can be downloaded for free from Stereogum.
The tracklist is as follows:

  1. Peter Bjorn And John – ‘Is This It’
  2. Chelsea Wolfe – ‘The Modern Age’
  3. Frankie Rose – ‘Soma’
  4. Real Estate – ‘Barely Legal’
  5. Wise Blood – ‘Someday’
  6. Austra – ‘Alone, Together’
  7. The Morning Benders – ‘Last Night’
  8. Owen Pallett – ‘Hard To Explain’
  9. Heems – ‘New York City Cops’
  10. Deradoorian – ‘Trying Your Luck’
  11. Computer Magic – ‘Take It Or Leave It’

Link to the download: http://stereogum.com/767531/stroked-tribute-to-is-this-it/mp3s/

The Strokes will be performing at Reading on 27th August, ten years to the day after Is This It was released in the UK, and at Leeds on 28th August.

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