Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi Have Started Writing Songs

According to an interview that Fabrizio Moretti gave to the BBC after a recent gig with band Little Joy, fellow members of The Strokes – frontman Julian Casablancas and lead guitarist Nick Velensi – have already started working on new music for the band’s fourth record.

“Julian has started writing and Nick has got some material as well,” Moretti said. “We’re the kind of band that it’s not finished until everyone’s in one room and everyone’s got their parts perfectly. We’re a very mechanical band.”

The first day that all members of the band will get together is, as we’ve written, Feb. 11 at 2:00 p.m.

At that time, Moretti, guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. and bassist Nikolai Fraiture will join Casablancas and Valensi in New York City to work on the new record.

So that’s good news if you’re a fan of The Strokes.

It’s taken so long to produce a follow-up to 2006’s First Impressions of Earth because of many reasons.  First off, the band toured from December 2005 to September of 2006 in support of FIoE. And then, Valensi requested a year to spend with his new-born twins in Los Angeles, according to NME. After the year was up, the band reportedly decided to take another year to work on their individual efforts (Hammond made two solo records, Moretti made Little Joy and Fraiture made Time of the Assassins under the name Nickel Eye).

But now the band’s almost back together, and a record’s not far off.

(Expect it by the Fall)

Stay tuned to updates on The Strokes, and, starting Feb 11th, Is This It X will release lesser-known music/videos of the band to countdown to the release of the fourth album.

And if you’d like to hear new music from Nikolai Fraiture, pick up Time of the Assassins, which came out today.