Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young -200... (Deluxe – 2024)

The album’s title itself— Phrazes for the Young —is a winking twist on Oscar Wilde’s Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young , replacing wisdom with misspelled, fragmented slogans for a generation that doesn’t trust complete sentences.

Casablancas drops the cryptic cool for something weirder: moral confusion, self-help jargon, and dad-joke puns delivered with deadpan intensity. He sings about “the outfield of infinity” and “four Chomolungmas” (Mt. Everest). He warns against being a “coconut” (hard exterior, empty inside). It’s less Is This It ’s bedroom voyeurism and more a late-night Wikipedia binge on philosophy and conspiracy theories. Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young -200...

It also directly led to The Voidz’s glorious chaos and, indirectly, to The Strokes’ eventual comeback ( The New Abnormal ) by reminding everyone: Julian doesn’t owe you a second Room on Fire . He owes you his strange, unfiltered id. The album’s title itself— Phrazes for the Young