Is This It You Must Hear Before You Die". The Strokes Production Design Is This It Is This It is the debut studio album by American rock band the Strokes, released on July 30, 2001 by RCA Records. It was recorded at Transporterraum in New York City with producer Gordon Raphael from March to April 2001. For their debut, the band strived to capture a simple sound that was not significantly enhanced in the studio. Building on their 2001 EP "The Modern Age", the band members molded compositions largely through live takes during recording sessions, while songwriter and lead singer Julian Casablancas continued
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