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: While Casablancas has expressed some regret that he "played it safe" instead of going even weirder, the album has maintained a dedicated cult following over the last 15 years. Notable Tracks Julian Casablancas, "Phrazes for the Young" - Billboard

It is an album about the terrifying freedom of beginning again. Julian Casablancas could have cashed in on nostalgia in 2009. Instead, he chose to make a weird, Auto-Tuned, synth-pop apologia. He gambled that his audience would follow him into the "11th Dimension." Julian Casablancas - Phrazes for the Young -200...

"I've got a river of brakelights stretching back to the dawn / I'm so tired of this modern age." : While Casablancas has expressed some regret that

Two tracks on Phrazes for the Young cemented its status as a cult classic: "11th Dimension" and "4 Chords of the Apocalypse." Instead, he chose to make a weird, Auto-Tuned,

Phrazes for the Young isn’t a masterpiece. It’s better: it’s a fascinating failure of ambition that accidentally predicted the next decade of rock’s synth-soaked loneliness. Listen to it as a solo album, but better yet—listen to it as a manifesto: “Don’t be a coconut.” Be the weird guy with the vocoder and the Nietzsche complex.

"I've got music comin' out of my hands and feet and fingertips / And I've got no time to lose, I'm just tryin' to find a better way to do it."

: Casablancas trades raw guitars for a dense, "funhouse mirror" production full of synthesizers, drum machines, and baroque electro-ballads.