The customer is obviously/Oblivious and wrong, sings Julian Casablancas in a sweet falsetto on the first track of his new album. With its clanking, queasy guitars and off-colour keyboard lines, Take Me in Your Army seeks to up-end expectations of what a Julian Casablancas record might sound like these days. Not much like the Strokes, is the upshot; not much like Phrazes for the Young , his really very good solo debut from 2009, and not much like InstantCrush, his vocodered collaboration with Daft Punk, either.
It seeks to curdle pop sentiments. Take me in your arms is what Casablancas is not singing, even though some seriously sweet R&B lies at the heart of the song. The message? This song, this album, is emphatically not for you. This isnt for everyone/This is for no one, he slurs, driving the point home in a voice so grease-laden you need powerful surfactants to glean anything from it.
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