If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

I didn't want people to say 'Okay this is his weird abstract thing' and dismiss the album. Solo work
His first solo album Phrazes for the Young (inspired by the Oscar Wilde book "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young") was released on November 2 in the UK and November 3 2009 in the United States. He discussed his new influences by saying "I would've gone weirder with the music but I wanted to be smart.

Julian Fernando Casablancas (born August 23 1978) is an American musician singer songwriter and frontman of The Strokes.