(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Julian Casablancas wouldnt call his relationship with his The Strokes bandmates a friendship.

The lead singer is in the rock band with Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr., Nikolai Fraiture and Fabrizio Moretti.

Their eagerly-anticipated fourth album Angles was released last month, after the band members went off to work on different projects for five years before reforming.

The group are famed for their temperamental relationship and Julian admits their strained bond has led him to question how close they are.

Well, I want to, but if I was to analyse it from afar I wonder, he mused in an interview with Q magazine when asked if hed call him relationship with his band members a friendship.

Bass guitarist Nikolai has previously admitted that relations got pretty dire at one point during the last five years.

However, Julian, 32, insists the band work hard at maintaining a workable professional relationship.

We work better than we ever did. Its not like were fighting so we get along fine. Do we hang out in my downtime? Not really. We work together, get along great, laugh, joke, its a pleasurable experience, he revealed.

I think theres chemistry because weve played music together and that carries you through. (C) Cover Media