One Way Trigger addiction. It is synth-driven, similarly to several tracks on the band's previous album, "Angles", and features unusual falsetto vocals from singer Julian Casablancas, as well as the first instance of an acoustic guitar on a Strokes recording. The song is one of the few from "Comedown Machine" to have been performed live, and is the only Strokes song to have ever been performed live by Hammond Jr. as a solo artist. One Way Trigger "One Way Trigger" is a song by American rock band the Strokes. Written primarily by Albert Hammond, Jr. and Julian Casablancas, it was released as a
Is This It Julian Casablancas, guitarist Nick Valensi, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, and drummer Fabrizio Moretti. Casablancas's stepfather and Moretti's and Fraiture's older brothers introduced the quartet to the music of reggae artist Bob Marley, protopunk group the Velvet Underground, and alternative rock band Jane's Addiction. Discussing the formative stages of the group, Moretti noted, "Our music was, like, [the Doors'], but trying to be classical. We all took music classes and tried writing songs, and when we put them together they were this crazy amalgam of insane ideas that we thought was really cool." In 1998, Albert Hammond, Jr., who Casablancas knew from