The New Abnormal is the late-career Strokes album that finally justified the wait: Rick Rubin strips them back while letting Casablancas' falsetto wander into synth-pop melancholy. "The Adults Are Talking" and "Ode to the Mets" rank with their classics. A Grammy and a creative pulse, two decades in — nobody predicted both.
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