It’s hard to believe that ten years have passed since the release of The Strokes’ debut album Is This It. A surge of great singles in the early noughties from bands like The White Stripes, The Hives and The Coral saw indie guitar pop re-enter the public consciousness in a way not seen since the mid-nineties, but there was one group scaling the heights of popularity like no other. They were The Strokes, five immaculately dishevelled New Yorkers armed with an arsenal of instant pop classics.
