The Strokes are back, folks. Last week, they released a new track online and now they’ve revealed that a new album is definitely on the way. It’s called Comedown Machine and it’s getting released on March 26, 2013, via RCA Records. Comedown Machine will be the fifth studio album from the New York band and their first since 2011’s Angles.

Not a huge amount is known about the album – which is currently available for pre-order on the band’s website – but new song ‘One Way Trigger’ reveals that the band have opted to layer ‘80s party synths over their singer Julian Casablancas’ usual laid back vocal style. The first single for the album will not be ‘One Way Trigger,’ though. That honour goes to ‘All The Time,’ a song first picked up on by radio station 107.7 The End. Bass player Nikolai Fraiture has previously told Rolling Stone magazine that they were “trying not to lose momentum by taking time off and having to reboot the whole system.”

“We're bringing in parts and ideas," Fraiture said at the time, "and kind of just working on those and trying to make sense of them, coming from five different people.” Now, it looks as though all of those parts and ideas have finally come to fruition, in album number five, Comedown Machine. 

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