Julian Casablancas by the same thing twice!" After the release of the two other albums and several major tours, the band took a 5-year break before returning with their fourth album "Angles" in 2011. The five year hiatus was said to be the result of conflicting solo projects, sobriety issues, and unspoken emotions.The Strokes' drummer Fab Moretti claimed the band struggled to process such "subconscious volcanic emotions", partly because they were still "children" at the time. Though their creative processes has been critiqued by outside observers as “a democracy under a dictator”, Casablancas has encouraged each band member to contribute their own
Julian Temple Band studio engineer Tom Bell of Port Chalmers Recording Services. Julian Temple Band Julian Temple Band is an alternative rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand, fronted by Californian/New Zealand singer-songwriter Julian Temple. They formed in February, 2004 as a surf-rock inspired project after post-graduate work at the University of Otago. The band has independently recorded and released six albums; "In Sea" (2006), "Quiet Earth" (2009), "Balance Escapes" (2010), "Upsidedownbackwards" (2012), "Ceiling in the Sky" (2015), and "Antarctica" (2018). Within a week of its release, "Upsidedownbackwards" debuted on the New Zealand Artists Albums Chart and quickly climbed to number 7 over five