Reading about international politics, economics, and science certainly helps build a respectable vocabulary. However, there is plenty of good writing in any field, so there is no reason why you need to go to far from your avocation to learn some new words.
To be sure, look at all of the great words used in a recent New York Times piece about the return of The Strokes to the music scene.
Julian Casablancas, the singer and insistent frontman for the group that a decade ago revived louche New York City rock ’n’ roll, was in a dressing room, listening for the first time to the final mix of the Strokes’ fourth album, “Angles,” due on March 22 from RCA.
But over the years, as age, fame, addiction, solo projects and creative foment interceded, their vision striated.
The result is an album with 10 highly worked-over songs that are identifiably the Strokes — those counterpoint guitar riffs, Mr. Casablancas’s dyspeptic vocals, with their late-night energy and lyrical self-doubt, a few synths and downbeats for modern measure — but with a distinction.
And it was recorded not in a studio in New York City but in a bucolic setting upstate.
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