Casablancas and company released this little disc in March 2011, their fourth album, after five long years of silence since the previous (and disappointing) First Impressions of Earth.

Our stylish New York friends surprise us quite a bit and shift towards an eighties pop (Macchu Picchu, Two Kinds of Happiness, Life Is Simple In the Moonlight). They echo the Queen (Gratisfaction) and mimic the Radiohead (You're So Right), but they still show they can compose pieces in the old style, like the first single Under Cover of Darkness.

Taken for a Fool is undoubtedly the best track on Angles, but perhaps the song that best represents it is Games.

Approved.

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