First Impressions of Earth
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| Studio album by The Strokes | ||||
| Released | January 3, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | January–May 2005 in Sestri Levante (Albergo Bar Ristorante "La Neigra") | |||
| Length | 52:19 | |||
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| Metacritic | (69/100) |
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| AllMusic |   |
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| The A.V. Club | B+ |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
| The Guardian | |
| NME | (8/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (5.9/10) |
| Rolling Stone |  |
| Spin | (5/10) |
| Yahoo! Music UK |   |
First Impressions of Earth is the third studio album by the American rock band the Strokes. It was released on January 3, 2006, through RCA Records, having been preceded by lead single "Juicebox" some weeks earlier. It is also the first album by the Strokes to have a Parental Advisory Label, as well as the first and only to exceed 40 minutes in length.
The album was recorded over a ten-month period. The Strokes initially set out to record it with Gordon Raphael, the producer of their first two albums. Later on, guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. introduced them to Grammy Award-winning producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett, Sublime), who stepped in to collaborate with Raphael. However, the collaboration was not working out and so Raphael stepped down. As a result, the majority of the album was produced by Kahne.
The album has a score of 69 out of 100 from Metacritic based on 38 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews". Some of the reviews were among the harshest the Strokes had received up to this point in the band's recording career. For instance, Heather Phares of AllMusic called the album the Strokes' "weakest album yet." At the same time, the album also received positive reviews from the likes of Will Hermes of Entertainment Weekly who praised the album and thought it was a marked improvement over the Strokes' previous album Room on Fire. In his Consumer Guide, Robert Christgau gave the album a three-star honorable mention (
) while picking out two songs from the album ("You Only Live Once" and "Ask Me Anything") and stating, "You know how it is--the gym does more for your wind than for your jump shot."
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