“I was trying to feed one M&Ms earlier, but he wasn’t having it”: The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas reveals he’s trying to learn how to communicate with crows
Julian Casablancas of The Strokes has shared his current slightly unconventional hobby – learning how to communicate with crows.
When Mojo asks Casablancas to tell them something he’d never told an interviewer before, he replies, “I’ve been trying to communicate with crows lately. I heard they have an intricate sonic language, but I haven’t had any luck.”
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Crows are considered to be among the most intelligent animal species in the world, using tools, remembering faces, and solving problems, but it doesn’t seem to be going smoothly for Casablancas so far. He explains that he decided to use food as a means to communicate with them: “I was trying to feed one M&Ms earlier, but he wasn’t having it. People can catch me making weird noises, trying to mimic the crow. I think the crows are more startled than the humans.”
Elsewhere in the interview, he discusses the new album – Like All Before You – from his other band, The Voidz, which was released today (20 September), and compares writing Voidz songs to writing Strokes songs. He says, “Voidz songs are where my mind has been pushing me, and where I want to go, and where I am. But the ability or capability or muscle memory of writing Strokes-sequel stuff is just always going to be there. When those songs appear, it makes more sense to put them in each category, but it’s not always that clear. But there’s more ‘no-limits’ with The Voidz.”
When asked if Like All Before You is a concept album, he suggests, “I guess a little. Maybe subconsciously. It hopefully hits if you have taken mushrooms. I had just watched Gone With The Wind, and they used to have overtures at the beginning of movies, and then we end the album with a synthesizer version. But it is not a rock opera story. If anything, the concept was going to be a one-word album title. At first, it was Zeal, then Perseverance.”
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