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Last fall, we spent some time on the phone with Strokes guitarist and solo artist Albert Hammond, Jr. just as he'd begun to mix his second solo album. Hammond told us just about everything he could about the then-unfinished LP, including the strict recording schedule and his tight-knit crew of collaborators (including Matt Romano, Marc Philippe Eskenazi, and Josh Lattanzi).

Flash forward a season or so and out comes all the rest. ¿Cómo Te Llama?, Hammond's latest solo offering, is due July 7 in the UK and July 8 in the U.S. from RCA/RED. The 13-track affair features a string quartet, a little piano from Sean Lennon on the instrumental "Spooky Couch", and, as ever, the sound of guitar strap meeting leather jacket. It also includes one of the best song titles of the year: "Feed Me Jack Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Peter Sellers".

Hammond's got no tour dates to speak of at present, though his exhaustive schedule in the wake of Yours to Keep leads one to believe he'll get out there plenty for the new one.

As for that other band Albert finds himself in from time to time, well, let's not force the issue. Fellow Stroke Nikolai Fraiture recent hopped on the Strokes' website and posted a little non-update about the band's follow up to 2006's First Impressions of Earth. ""I'm still looking very forward to a fourth album release," Fraiture wrote, echoing the sentiments of many. "We just need to work out a few technical kinks..." [via Stereogum].

We'll leave them to sort all that out while we take a gander at the tracklist to ¿Cómo Te Llama?, after the jump.

¿Cómo Te Llama?:

01 Bargain of a Century
02 In My Room
03 Lisa
04 GfC
05 The Boss Americana
06 Rocket
07 Victory at Monterey
08 You Won't Be Fooled by This
09 Spooky Couch
10 Borrowed Time
11 G Up
12 Miss Myrtle
13. Feed Me Jack Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Peter Sellers