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Casablancas: 'Strokes return will be great'
Published Monday, Oct 5 2009, 12:48 BST | By Mayer Nissim
Rex Features
The band's frontman told The Observer that the group are poised to return with their first album of new material since 2006's First Impressions Of Earth.
Of past tensions in the group, he said: "Stylistically, I think I used to do everything and then people had a problem with that within the band, so we're doing more of a communal thing.
"I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist. With the Strokes now it's... in a minute it'll be about everything being great, but this second, it's about everyone being happy."
He added: "If we can get to that point, I think the rest will fall into place. It felt super-duper close, then it was postponed again, not by me.
"It's going to be great, it's just: to get everyone back, in the same spot, and feeling good, is tricky. But we're working on it."
The singer-songwriter releases his first solo album Phrazes For The Young on October 19.
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