Momentary Masters

2015 release, the third solo album from The Strokes' guitarist. I feel like the best songs I've written, as soon as I was done, I was like, Oh my God, I did it!' But in that split second that it comes, that feeling goes, he explains. It's the same thing when you find complete happiness, you find this complete low. I feel like that's what being creative is: It's you bouncing with emotion and what you capture in those bounces. Accept where you are and use it. Thus Hammond Jr. Has called his third solo album Momentary Masters. Many years have passed since the release of his two solo records, 2006's Yours to Keep and 2008's Cmo Te Llama?, and truthfully, the person who created those songs is in a very different place now. Back then Hammond Jr. #was swept up in a whirlwind, one-fifth of The Strokes, indulging in an intoxicating cocktail of excess and all consuming romances. When he finally sobered up, getting back into writing music was a daunting challenge.