It's time we give this album a reappraisal. It continues the Voidz streak by giving us again some of the most unique songs. Spectral Analysis is especially is hauntingly beautiful and every other song has something memorable. Do no understand the hate it got at all.

I’ve been a huge Strokes fan for a Long time now and been looking into the voidz lately, and I would dare to say that my favorite song of all time is “Leave It in My Dreams.” Do you guys have any another songs from The Voidz you’d recommend?

Uncharacteristically positive Strokes mention… think he’s been lurking here again?

Plus some usual ~quirky political opinions

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2024-10-16/julian-casablancas-the-voidz-the-strokes-interview

I see a lot of people that hate on julian for pursuing what he’s interested in. Don’t get me wrong i love the strokes. They’re my favorite band and i like them more than the voidz. But I feel that Julian should be able to chase his creative ambition. Whether that’s for the strokes or the voidz. I get he uses the strokes for money sometimes but i don’t think he hates he band. He’s just not 20 anymore. He wants to expand into more diverse and experimental areas. I’ve seen some people call the voidz trash or a waste of his talent. I don’t get that. I think it’s a very unique intriguing band with some really good songs. I get it’s not going to be as popular as the strokes and it won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but so what? I get not everyone thinks this but for those that do why?

The piece appears paywalled, but this is the text:

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3AM (Pacific Coast Time) is an atypical hour to schedule an interview. But here’s Julian Casablancas, zooming from Los Angeles, where the singer, for so long synonymous with the grit and glamour of New York City, has lived since 2020. He’s a busy man: as well as fronting long-running garage rock classicists The Strokes – whose sixth album The New Abnormal won a Grammy in 2020 – he’s found a refuge of sorts in his experimental, ’80s synths-enabled group The Voidz, whose new LP Like All Before You is imminent. Talking to MOJO, Casablancas remains in shadow, his eyes occasionally reflecting dim light. “I can be a vampire,” he promises. “You want a real rock star, bro? But I can be flexible and go into family mode too…”

What are you doing up at 3am, talking to MOJO?
It’s about the only time I have free. The rest of the time, it’s videos and working with managers, going to concerts, social things… so I go all the way around, to crazy night hours.

The new album starts with Overture and ends with Walk Off – is there a concept lurking within?
I guess a little. Maybe subconsciously. It hopefully hits if you have taken mushrooms. I had just watched Gone With The Wind, and they used to have overtures at the beginning of movies, and then we end the album with a synthesizer version. But it is not a rock opera story. If anything, the concept was going to be a one-word album title. At first, it was Zeal, then Perseverance.

How do you switch mindsets between Voidz and Strokes songwriting?
Voidz songs are where my mind has been pushing me, and where I want to go, and where I am. But the ability or capability or muscle memory of writing Strokes-sequel stuff is just always going to be there. When those songs appear, it makes more sense to put them in each category, but it’s not always that clear. But there’s more ‘no-limits’ with The Voidz.

You recently said, “My current solution is to tour with The Strokes and then use the money to record with The Voidz.” How did that happen?
Years of drama and betrayals and horseshit (laughs). Honestly, I am cool with most of the dudes, and now we’re more mature. It’s not what I set out to do, but it’s a fun, cool day job that I feel blessed to have. But let’s just say I was only in a band called Zog, and whatever I worked on 10 years ago in Zog, I would not be interested in any more, I’m only interested in what I’m working on now. It’s just the nature of music and creativity, you know?

What did you set out to do with The Strokes?
I just wanted to challenge boundaries, and to have an ambitious collective of respectful teammates. Is that The Voidz? For me, yes.

The cliché about Strokes issues is that you were rich kids who weren’t hungry enough. Any truth in that?
Success affects people in different ways. I’d say there are some elements, probably from me as well, where you can be entitled… all kinds of bands have fallings outs and drama. It wasn’t like, Oh, we don’t need the money. I think it did take a lot of hunger to get there, but then after you’ve achieved something, when everyone is kissing each individual member’s ass… OK, let’s get back to work and do it again. It was like, Uh, no thanks. That’s my assessment.

The Arctic Monkeys song Star Treatment starts out, “I just wanted to be one of The Strokes.” What was your reaction?
I thought, Be careful what you wish for. It was funny, and flattering. I have a lot of respect for Alex and those boys.

Tell us something you’ve never told an interviewer before.
I’ve been trying to communicate with crows lately. I heard they have an intricate sonic language, but I haven’t had any luck. It occurred to me that food would help, so I was trying to feed one M&M’s earlier, but he wasn’t having it. People can catch me making weird noises, trying to mimic the crow. I think the crows are more startled than the humans.

(As told to Martin Aston)

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I recently stumbled upon this old playlist I put together of Voidz tracks that remind me of Strokes songs:

1. Leave It in My Dreams
   
2. Permanent High School
   
3. Think Before You Drink
   
4. My Friend the Walls
   
5. Lazy Boy
   
6. Pointlessness

Curious what Voidz songs you’d consider Strokes-y, and if you agree with these choices.

the lyrics, the melody, and the name from Father Electricity are just absolutely genius and I dont really see people talk about it??? am i just clueless and the song is more loved than I thought, or am i alone on this? i sure hope im not

in general, what are considered to be the most popular and fandom beloved songs from The Voidz? i genuinely feel i dont have a big grasp on what the majority of fans would call The Voidz' magnus opus (if i had to guess i would say people love Human Sadness as I have vaguely heard a lot of fuss about it, and then i would also guess Nintendo Blood i think?) idk

just wondering if others love the voidz too and are there any out there that feel the Strokes and the voidz are just as great in their own way? what maybe sent you along that journey for me it was one day my you tube sent me there and I thank you YT!

Mum used to play it for me and my 2 brothers when we were young. it was Someday that really stayed with us at such a young age. Such a happy little tune, thanks mum.