The Strokes play SNL with Walton Goggins on bongos

[KaiHeck]

The Strokes returned to Saturday Night Live with a famous friend. NME reports that the band played Lonely In The Future and Going Shopping on the 7 November episode, which was hosted by Druski

Both songs are from Reality Awaits, their seventh album, released in July. It was recorded in Costa Rica with Rick Rubin and is their first album in six years

Walton Goggins joined them on bongos. He also starred in the Going Shopping video, which pays homage to Paul Simon's You Can Call Me Al, and he wrote that he never had the audacity to put something like this on his bucket list

It was the band's fifth SNL appearance, after 2002, 2006, 2011 and 2020. Guitarist Nick Valensi is on a temporary break, with Longwave's Steve Schiltz filling in

Walton Goggins on bongos is a delightfully unexpected sight, and his enthusiasm shows. The Strokes playing SNL again after six years away from new music feels like a proper comeback. Recording with Rick Rubin in Costa Rica clearly gave the new album a fresh feel

Did you catch The Strokes on SNL? And what do you think of Reality Awaits?

Watch The Strokes perform 'Lonely In The Future' and 'Going Shopping' with Walton Goggins on 'SNL'www.nme.com