“The Strokes are alive and well and living in New York City," says Valensi, speaking in an interview with NME. "We are working on music and we want to hopefully put it out next year.”

Valensi is careful about getting fans hopes up, however. "If I start saying a lot now, people get too excited. Then there’s all this hype you’ve got to compete with, and that’s not fun. If anything, I’d rather just pull a Beyonce at some point next year and just drop shit.”

Whether we can expect a full studio album or not remains to be seen. The fact that many of the original members have significant side projects puts us at even more of a guess as to when we can expect the new music, but Valensi's words will be encouragement for the band's dedicated fan base.

The Strokes released their new EP Future Present Past back in June, their first release since 2013's Comedown Machine .