5. First Impressions of Earth - Released in 2006 and widely considered as part of the purgatory years of modern rock. As a result, First Impressions arrived overblown and claustrophobic to the ears. While it had some absolutely killer singles, see 'Juicebox' or 'You Only Live Once' for reference, it was also packed to the brim with filler. Tracks like 'Killing Lies' and '15 minutes' have long since been forgotten or at least poorly associated with this album. It's a shame because 'Vision of Division' has one of the gnarliest AHJ solos in their discography, oh well.

4. Angles - Five years of radio silence was broken by 30 seconds of the obscenely catchy pre-chorus from 'Under Cover of Darkness' in 2011. Rumours of a potential split and disagreements within the band disrupted the dynamic and led to an album of varying temperatures. There are some dud tracks that sound more like 'Games' and 'Call Me Back', tunes that we have to assume were offcuts from Casablancas' Phrazes for the Young record. But hope was not all lost, hot tracks like opener 'Machu Picchu' and 'Two Kinds of Happiness' mask the feeling of a band on the cusp of falling apart.

3. Comedown Machine - The black sheep within The Strokes discography. Dropped on us with very little promotion and approximately zero touring support, Comedown Machine represents The Strokes picking up the pieces and seeing what kind of band they could be in 2013. The disco grooves sit at the forefront of their overall sound on tracks like 'Welcome to Japan' and Ah-Ha tribute track 'One Way Trigger'. The flawless guitar work is still there on 'Partners in Crime' and '50/50', Comedown Machine gets stick for the little it offered at the time but I think it's symbolic of a band who were still making records because they wanted to, not because they had to.

2. Room On Fire - The sophomore slump is a myth, a cruel trick played by promotion experts to scare bands into keeping up the standards after a successful debut. For The Strokes, it was never a worry because if Room on Fire is one thing, it's effortless. The two year transition only made Julian a stronger lyricist and the band more ambitious with their phrasing. Home to 'Reptilia', maybe the perfect Strokes song, Room on Fire is crammed with amazing structures, gritty production and a well preserved New York attitude.

1. Is This It - This is it. The magnum opus of the last decade, Is This It is the catalyst for any teenager aged 8-17 at the time to pick up a budget Strat and figure out how to make an amp do that rad feedback noise at the start of 'New York City Cops'. Uncensored, unkempt and uncontrolled, Is This It is a modern masterpiece. Simultaneously intellectualist and accessible, Julian's razor sharp wit is backed by an unrelenting wall of distortion that swells and diminishes at such a perfect rate it feels like classical music. Flawless and brazen, there hasn't been an indie record to match it since.