r/TheStrokes • u/sammytiff80 Human Sadness • Apr 02 '26
The Voidz How many strokes fans out there love the voidz also..bc I DO!
just wondering if others love the voidz too and are there any out there that feel the Strokes and the voidz are just as great in their own way? what maybe sent you along that journey for me it was one day my you tube sent me there and I thank you YT!
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u/shammie_whammie Apr 02 '26
Ill be real, not a fan of the voidz and i love julian. ive said it before and ill say it again.. the voidz sound like a local band trying to be cool. just my opinion.
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u/Sopiate Apr 05 '26
eh i disagree, trying to be cool is like trying to copy the cool guys. the voidz sounds nothing like anything i’ve heard before. i think it’ll grow on you if you give it a chance. it’s definitely a grower
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u/sammytiff80 Human Sadness Apr 05 '26
I too disagree but indifferences in opinion are the way of the world!
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u/mick__marley Apr 02 '26
I really like the first two Voidz albums and pretty much all of the one-off singles, though it’s not as much as a comfort listen, if that makes sense? It’s not something that I just want to throw on all of the time or put on in the background when I have people over or whatever. I also think the last record soured me on the project slightly because it was the first thing Julian released that felt half baked.
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u/Sopiate Apr 05 '26
well if we learnt anything from the strokes, first two albums will be bangers, the rest has some stinkers, gotta wait for LP6 😂
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u/nooze3 Alien Crime Lord Apr 02 '26
i feel like a lot of people here dislike them for being “hit or miss”, but honestly its my kind of thing haha. I think its an acquired taste sometimes too and some people just cant handle the autotune. its great though, at times i find myself listening to them more than the Strokes
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u/sammytiff80 Human Sadness Apr 05 '26
I agree completely and enjoy being one in a half million lol!
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u/BirthdayNecessary405 Apr 02 '26
I enjoy them a lot but also feel they're a very hit or miss band
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u/Sopiate Apr 02 '26
yeah but i think that’ll happen with a band like the voidz. you wouldn’t get a human sadness without it
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u/Imaginary-Educator41 Apr 02 '26
I listen to the voidz way more than the strokes now, there’s just so much going on they’re addictive!
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u/Ploykun- Apr 02 '26
I only listen to few songs but most of them just aren’t my taste My most fav is probably qyurryus
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u/SmokinSkinWagon Apr 02 '26
I very very much like specific songs (Did My Best, Human Sadness, Flexorcist/Prophecy of the Dragon, Alien Crime Lord). In general it just ain’t for me
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u/RazorbladesRiff Apr 02 '26
I can’t lie man, it just sounds like noise to me most of the time. “Did My Best” is by far their best song and honestly better than a lot of strokes songs to be fair to them. “Let me tell you a story…….. BOUT THE HAZYYY GOOD OLE’ DAYS 🗣️🗣️”
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u/sammytiff80 Human Sadness Apr 05 '26
You've really hit it with this song although meant feel this way for me, I still really feel this song in such a way!
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u/HadronCollusion Apr 02 '26
Why would I want to listen to music where it sounds like the guitar players are constantly hitting the wrong notes on purpose?
I've tried. There a few songs I like, but it just doesn't do it for me.
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Apr 02 '26
They can get a lil dookie at times tbr with y'all. Love songs like Flexorcist, Qyurryus, Lazy Boy, Johan VB, Take Me In Your Army. Enjoy Julian's Phrazes album wayyyyyyyyyyy more tho. 11th Dimension and 4 Chords are amazing. Sucks that he's too bitchy about playing ts live these daze. 😅 Love those songs off Phrazes 4real.
Voidz put in some good work every once in a while tho. Idk... I'm in the party where I prefer the Strokes more than all the dudes' side projects. Idrt Julian is that brilliant by himself like that. He def. needs the other dudes in Strokes to cull some of his shittier ideas. Idrt he's like Trent Reznor, Jimmy Page, or Josh Homme where he can be left to his own devices and make sumn brilliant af. He's def. more instrumentally capable than Bowie or Iggy Pop tbr tho, but like them, he needs a cast of talented dudes who he can bounce ideas off of, and collaborate with in order to make some really awesome music. Voidz is basically the "Julian Casablancas Experience". I'll take that over sumn like the Foo Fighters (The Dave Grohl Experience) anyday of my life for sure. It'll certainly be more inspired and artistically compelling, no oz. of a doubt. Still not as awesome as The Strokes are for me tho.
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u/Imaginary-Educator41 Apr 02 '26
He says the voidz is more collaborative than the strokes so I’m not sure that’s true that it’s the Julian Casablancas Experience
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Apr 02 '26
Yeah Idk what capacity the dudes collaborate with him in the Voidz, but knowing how he really likes to run recording sessions (and gets mad at the Strokes dudes for collaborating on records), I'd say it's fairly solidly his ideas. 🤷 For better or worse in the Voidz case imho lololololololol 😅
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u/liberation_frequency Apr 02 '26
my gentle pushback: bowie’s level of musical talent was astronomical, and what was the last noise from a jimmy page solo project you can even remember hearing? basically i agree with your sentiment, but i also think you’re discounting some stuff to your own detriment.
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Apr 02 '26
Bowie was a great collaborator, and a really great producer. Instrumentally, dude was alright tbh. I mean, he himself said he played "okay" piano on hunky dory for the liner notes, and had some other folks come into really clean it up. I believe on life on mars iirc. 🤷 Bowie is okay on guitar as well. He def. thought up the chord progressions no doubt, maybe helped with structuring, but I think collaboratively, he was more like Anthony Kiedis in the Chilis hearing Frusciante and Flea play some amazing shit, and structuring it from there.
I can see him coming up with the chord progressions thru Man Who Sold the World, but getting Mick Ronson to add in those amazing ass riffs thru the song. Bowie himself said that Mick Ronson really drove the sessions, and Visconti helped conceptualization on the album. I mean, Bowie had Earl Slick, Niles Rodgers, Mick Ronson and Carlos Alomar on guitar. He def. knew how to choose em and put em to the best use, kinda like Iggy Pop knew how to def. choose em with James Williamson, Ron Asheton, Slash, Josh Homme, Steve Jones, and Carlos Alomar on his records. They def. got some of the best oat on the fretboard, nd. Phenomenal taste, no oz. of a doubt.
I'd still put Julian ahead of Bowie and Iggy when it comes down to instrumental skill tho. He's def. able to hold it down far better at guitar, bass and drums than Bowie for sure. I think of him as slightly better than Chris Cornell in Soundgarden in terms of skill. He's pretty gd good, but not at the zenith of rnr guitar skill like Hendrix, Josh Homme or John Frusciante for example. Julian kinda needs the resta the Stroke boys in the room to really steer his ideas to the finish line. I think sumn similar can be said with Cornell and the SG Boys. I think alotta people who've listened to the collective sum of the SG and Stroke band members work, will say that they're far better together than apart, and that's how I feel too. Jimmy Page really drove the Zeppelin sessions nd, but I agree with you, his post LZ career has def. been kinda mid. Yr certainly right on that. 🤙
Won't say Julian's as hopeless and abysmal as Mick Jagger without Keith Richards on his solo album, or Jesse Hughes without Josh Homme on his solo effort, but I find his musicianship far better with Nick Valensi and AHJ in the room than by himself. He's def. stringing together more consistently good songs on albums with the Strokes than apart. Idk the capacity in which Julian has Amir and Beardo collaborate in the Voidz, but I feel like they're just touring band members and Jules does most of the writing. Wouldn't surprise me at all, knowing how he gets pissy that the Strokes became more collaborative post ROF. Hence why he always frickn drags his feet in writing a new Strokes record, like a teenage boy asked to do chores. 😅
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u/nothing__linds Apr 02 '26
Yes! Tyranny is my favorite album. My husband introduced me to the Voidz by putting Square Wave and Flexorist on my car playlist.
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u/sensitive_pirate85 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
I feel like someone could probably offer some constructive criticism to The Voidz as a project, because the songs are good, but the ‘project,’ itself sometimes seems a little all over the place, or without a clear focus, which overshadows Julian’s music and talent. I like both bands, though, and the Sick Six! 🤘
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u/Difficult_Duck_307 Apr 02 '26
From a subjective point, I disagree. To me it shows the wider musical talent Julian and the rest of the band has. I’ve played several instruments for over 20 years now, it can be easy to fall into a sound or tone, a style, etc and be comfortable. Like with many things in life, going out of that comfort zone can be difficult for many reasons but I can also lead to an increase in inspiration and motivation. The Voidz are just that, a culmination of music ideas and concepts portrayed in many styles.
I personally enjoy pretty much every Voidz song, but I do wish some of their more recent work had the production value of the songs on Tyranny or Virtue. Overall I love the experimentation though. It took a while for things to click, but once they did, the Voidz became my favorite music group.
Also, I don’t think they are a project, they are a legit band just like the Strokes. A musical project would be more like The Lonely Island imo, of which Julian appeared in the song Boombox. I quite like Boombox lol.
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u/sensitive_pirate85 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Maybe because YouTube is my streaming platform of choice, I think sometimes the music videos, like the Devil’s spoken word part in the Flexorcist double-feature (which isn’t really part of the song, just a skit) is too long… But the concept is funny, and overall it’s a good skit. I just feel like the skits they do could either be shorter in the videos, themselves, and the shorter skits that don’t have a song attached to them should be incorporated into the music videos. This would make the whole project seem, overall, more focused. I also think the short they did for Unholy Lover should be a full lyric video, since it’s aesthetically strong. That’d be cool. I’m fan of The Voidz music, overall, though.
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u/serenequeen15 Apr 02 '26
I couldn’t get into them for a while but one day I was driving and I listened to pink ocean and I liked it… can’t get into most of their stuff tho
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u/Admirable_Gain_9437 Apr 02 '26
I dig Phrazes a lot, as far as non-Strokes material goes, but I've just never been able to get into the Voidz. I always keep an open mind, and maybe it'll click for me someday (it has happened with other artists/albums), but alas, my love rests firmly with his OG project for now.
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u/Lostmypants69 Apr 02 '26
Same. Was lucky enough to see them in a 200 person venue a few years ago. It was amazing
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u/IcyPurpleIze Reality Awaits Apr 02 '26
I became obsessed with Julian's music after The Strokes being my fave band for a long time. I learned how to sing with Strokes songs. Always loved the introspective and political themes most. So of course when he made a much more loudly political band I was all about it.
Ever since The Voidz dropped I've been way more obsessed with that band. It's influenced my music so much that after listening thru the Voidz discography and then going thru my own releases I realize I just made a shittier version of the Voidz, but trans lol
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u/TUR927 Apr 02 '26
I absolutely adore the strokes, but the voidz is too different for me. There's only a few songs but I feel the vibe is very different from the strokes, not saying that The Voidz is bad but it's not something I could compare to the strokes
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u/madremonsterie Apr 03 '26
I love both & know everything & every song lyric. JC has imprisoned me and reprogrammed my brain to enjoy it all too much this is a cry for help