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“Under Cover of Darkness” by The Strokes

From the album Angles (2011)

“Under Cover of Darkness” by The Strokes appears on 27 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 2011 and 2018. It was first released in 2011 on the album Angles. Its best result is #10 on the WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #33 alternative song of 2011, #3,260 alternative song of all time and #118 of the '10s.

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The Strokes - Under Cover of Darkness (Official Video)

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"Under Cover of Darkness" broke five years of Strokes silence in February 2011, the lead single from their fourth album Angles and their first new single since "You Only Live Once" in 2006. They gave it away as a free download for 48 hours, and the first listen came as a relief: those tight, twitchy, interlocking guitars are back, the vocal slouches over them with a shrug, and the whole thing snaps along as if the band never took a break.

The writing credit goes to Julian Casablancas, Albert Hammond Jr., Fabrizio Moretti and Nick Valensi, and Joe Chiccarelli and Gus Oberg produced with the band. Warren Fu's video, shot at Loew's Jersey Theatre, opens on a scrap of the "You Only Live Once" clip and tips its hat to "Last Nite". NME later slotted it at 133 among its 150 best tracks of the previous 15 years.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 16 WFNX Boston, MA WFNX Top 101 Songs of 2011 101
2011 11 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 102 Songs of 2011 102
2011 83 The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2011 99
2011 58 97X Tampa-St. Petersburg, FL 97X Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 59 WTMD Baltimore, MD WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 89
2011 13 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2011 88
2011 10 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) WEQX Top 102.7 of 2011 103
2011 38 KFMA Tucson, AZ KFMA Top 50 Songs of 2011 50
2011 33 90.5 WERG Erie, PA WERG Top 90 of 2011 90
2011 36 KJEE 92.9 Santa Barbara, CA KJEE Top 92 Songs of 2011 92
2011 55 WXPN Philadelphia, PA WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 100
2011 35 Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY WEXT Top 97 of 2011 97
2011 51 KSLG Eureka (Humboldt County), CA KSLG Top 94 Slugtracks of 2011 94
2011 70 94.1 The Zone Rochester, NY 94.1 The Zone Most Played Songs of 2011 94
2011 35 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2011 98
2011 91 94.5 The Buzz Houston, TX 94.5 The Buzz Top 94 of 2011 94
2011 46 X96 Salt Lake City, UT X96 Top 50 Songs of 2011 49
2011 83 89.9 WLCA St. Louis, MO WLCA Top 89 of 2011 89
2011 59 WRNR 103.1 Annapolis, MD WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2011 104
2011 53 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2011 111
2011 41 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 2011 100
2011 40 WBRU Providence, RI WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 96

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2011 1152 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 631 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 609 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 609 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2018 482 WTMD WTMD Listeners' Top 897 Songs, 2003-2018 896

Also listed as: Under Cover Of Darkness.

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