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73

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8.6

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  • Summary: The four-track solo EP from The Strokes guitarist was produced by Gus Oberg.
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  1. Dec 2, 2013
    80
    For perhaps the first time, his solo work feels less like a tangent to his work with the Strokes and more like something sustainable in its own right.
  2. Dec 2, 2013
    70
    AHJ is not the Strokes, but like a closely connected sexy blonde cousin who he’d like to take up to a loft apartment in the Meatpacking District and do bad things to.
  3. Dec 2, 2013
    70
    On AHJ, there’s not a bad apple in the admittedly small bunch. It’s 15 minutes of music from a guy who is finally comfortable with himself, and that’s clearly doing his music justice.
  4. Dec 2, 2013
    68
    Running a mere five songs and 15 minutes, AHJ is a wholly fat-free effort that favors tight, snappy, emotionally direct songcraft over the genre experiments and instrumental excursions of ¿Cómo Te Llama?
  5. Magnet
    Dec 2, 2013
    65
    There's nothing here that doesn't feel like a weaker version of what he's already accomplished as a Stroke. Or as a solo artists for that matter. [No. 104, p.57]
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