The Strokes: The New Abnormal
Cult/RCA

Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
Epic

Thundercat: It Is What It Is
Brainfeeder

Despite the ravages of the other global pandemic (hip-hop, that is) rock music still seems to be in rudely good health. There is no current band ruder than the Strokes, who have made a 20-plus-year career out of rich-kid obnoxiousness and a refusal to play the media game.

Strokes albums come along infrequently – it’s part of their schtick that they don’t really need to work – and it’s now seven years since Comedown Machine, but they couldn’t have come up with a more zeitgeist-grabbing title than The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA).