RKS's excellent 2013 debut LP is a combination of their first EP, “Mary," which was recorded in a dorm room at Appalachian State University, where the core of the band started, and "Seven", their first album.
The Strokes' fifth album is immediately appealing as they sound like they’re genuinely having fun. At times it feels like a mixtape the Strokes made for themselves: 11 songs, 11 different genre experiments.
Marigold is an urgent, multivalent meditation and an expanded take on the blend of alt-country, indie rock and cerebral humanism that's inspired the band's ardent fan community.