{"id":487299,"date":"2019-06-21T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851215"},"modified":"2019-06-21T12:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:36:05","slug":"hear-the-strokes-nick-valensi-unite-with-crx-on-were-all-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/hear-the-strokes-nick-valensi-unite-with-crx-on-were-all-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear the Strokes\u2019 Nick Valensi Unite With CRX on \u2018We\u2019re All Alone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CRX-MAIN-PRESS-SHOTw.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-strokes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-strokes\" data-tag=\"the-strokes\">The Strokes<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nick-valensi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nick-valensi\" data-tag=\"nick-valensi\">Nick Valensi<\/a> and his band CRX confront loneliness and alienation head on in their new song, \u201cWe\u2019re All Alone.\u201d The track marks the first single off the band\u2019s upcoming album, <em>Peek<\/em>, out August 23rd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, CRX guitarist Darian Zahedi said \u201cWe\u2019re All Alone\u201d came out of a desire to \u201cdo something hypnotic as fuck.\u201d The song boasts a thumping new wave groove peppered with an array of synths and angular guitar riffs that wobble without losing any sense of melody. During the chorus, Valensi croons with a sweet bite, \u201cBefore all our time gets wasted, make up your mind\/Put down the phone, and face it\/We\u2019re all alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Peek<\/em> marks CRX\u2019s second album, following their 2016 debut, <em>New Skin<\/em>. The album was recorded by the band\u2019s new lineup, which includes Zahedi, bassist Jon Safley, drummer Ralph Alexander and keyboardist Brad Oberhofer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CRX wrote the songs on <em>Peek<\/em> during sessions at Valensi\u2019s home and a rehearsal space in downtown Los Angeles. The band primarily recorded the LP at NRG studios with producer Shane Stoneback, while they also cut tracks at Chromeo\u2019s studio and Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The recording was very different, because we made a big deal of tracking it as live as possible,\u201d Zahedi said. \u201cWe also let go and embraced some of these really cool influences that took us into the stratosphere. It was a combination of writing for over a year, getting out of our heads, and knowing what we wanted to sound like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-strokes-nick-valensi-crx-new-song-were-all-alone-851215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strokes\u2019 Nick Valensi and his band CRX confront loneliness and alienation head on in their new song, \u201cWe\u2019re All Alone.\u201d The track marks the first single off the band\u2019s upcoming album, Peek, out August 23rd. In a statement, CRX guitarist Darian Zahedi said \u201cWe\u2019re All Alone\u201d came out of a desire to \u201cdo something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:20:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}