• Music
  • 19 Mar 02

Take it or leave it

Take it or leave it
The Hot Press Newsdesk
The Hot Press Newsdesk

...but you'd better take it, 'cos The Strokes' upcoming Irish-only limited-edition EP (1000 copies, no more, no less) will soon be flying out of the "cooler record shops" near you

Strokes fans should start queuing now for the Irish-only release of the Hard To Explain EP.

Limited to just 1,000 copies, this niftiest of artifacts surfaces on April 5th and features 'Hard To Explain', 'The Modern Age', 'Last Nite', a live 'Take It Or Leave It' and the previously unheard 'When It Started'.

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According to a Rough Trade spokesperson, it'll be available from "cooler record shops nationwide."

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