Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr has told the NME that while the band are heading back to New York with producer Gordon Raphael they are in no hurry to record their third album, a follow up to 'Room On Fire': "You always set a schedule for yourself. A little bit of pressure always works a little better but I mean there's no set time. In our heads we have certain ideals we want to accomplish. But that's all, (it) could be five years. I don't want to [stay away that long]. I just don't like saying - I'd rather say five and have it be two than me saying one and it be three."

Asked how many songs had been written already he continued: "I would say a good amount right now. I don't want to put a number on it. It's more quality than quantity, even if it's just like one, you put out that one. That makes it more exciting than having 30 shitty songs. These ones are even more extreme. They are like third record songs. It's nice to see that - it means the progress is still going. We have a lot of work to do and it's so easy to talk about working and so hard to actually do it."

This bit of odd The Strokes news comes via those good folks at CMU. Its good to see a band not feeling pressured to do the tour-album-tour norm that kills off most bands rather quickly.