C'mon...Turn On The Bright Lights has got to be one of the best albums of last year. And people are still getting into it. It's a great record that, for me, gets better every time I hear it.
Also bands like The Walkmen and French Kicks are incredible too.
Yes
My sister got me into them recently. Their album is sitting in my CD player right now. Very retro.
Well, it looks like no one else really listens to them, but I can't get enough of 'em. For some reason their album just won't get out of my CD player.
It's good to see modern rock coming out of the slump of hip-hop rock or whatever it's called. I recently read an article about how important and profound Linkin Park and their new album is. It was absolutely hilarious.
Don't know them!
read a bit about them here and there and everyone allways has very fine things to say about them. ill definatly check them out at roskilde.
i like their stuff especially Stella Was a Diver..., i listened to this their cd constantly for about a week straight but haven't really picked them up since...a little too derivative for dedicated listening
i like them
Quote from: PawbloeIt's good to see modern rock coming out of the slump of hip-hop rock or whatever it's called
It could be called if-you-can't-beat-them-join-them rock....i blame the Beasties
Turn On The Bright Lights showed tremendous potential. I can't wait for their next record. Of the bands that have emerged so far, it looks like Interpol, The Strokes, The White Stripes, and Sigur Ros will be great artists of this decade.
The first track from TOTBL was on "Friends" last night.
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Quote from: MeshThe first track from TOTBL was on "Friends" last night.
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The outro-cliffhanger theme at the end?? I THOUGHT I recognized it!
Quote from: moonshinerQuote from: PawbloeIt's good to see modern rock coming out of the slump of hip-hop rock or whatever it's called
It could be called if-you-can't-beat-them-join-them rock....i blame the Beasties
Yeah, but the Beasties weren't so regressive as a lot of the other stuff.
I will third that the whole "rap-rock" thing has to go, though.
Quote from: European SonTurn On The Bright Lights showed tremendous potential. I can't wait for their next record. Of the bands that have emerged so far, it looks like Interpol, The Strokes, The White Stripes, and Sigur Ros will be great artists of this decade.
And maybe, just maybe, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
I do really enjoy the Interpol album. "NYC" is probably my favorite song. I love the line "The subway is a porno." Very evocative. And I'm not being facetious.
Quote from: European SonOf the bands that have emerged so far, it looks like Interpol, The Strokes, The White Stripes, and Sigur Ros will be great artists of this decade.
Of your list, only The Strokes have a legit chance at that, IMO.
Interpol: great, but too retro and faddy and esoteric to appeal to masses the way Radiohead does (and I'm using R-head as an example of a former "artist/band of the decade"). It'll take a miraculous second album with a left-field hit.
The White Stripes: already out of ideas after 4 albums. They'll be gone sooner than you think.
Sigur Ros: already out of ideas after 3 albums and they'll never have mass appeal.
The Strokes: retro and faddy, yes, but not all that esoteric. Proven mass appeal already. Of the four, the most likely to have a second or third album bigger and better than their first (and I'm not counting the first 2 White Stripes records...no one heard them—NO ONE).
i seriously just got this cd beacuase it was cheap and i listened to the 1st song and thought it was cool--- but now i listen to it all the time, interpool is so amazing!
the new interpol album has leaked for anyone who is interested. i never really cared for them but i'm giving it a shot anyways.
I really like Interpol... mainly because Joy Division came to an end too soon and of all the recent ripoff/retro bands, Interpol seems to do it the best.
I'll be interested to hear if they move in another direction... have to wait to get home to try to D/L though.
Quote from: RegularKarateI really like Interpol... mainly because Joy Division came to an end too soon and of all the recent ripoff/retro bands, Interpol seems to do it the best.
I've heard very little music from Joy Division, but that name keeps popping up when the conversation of Interpol comes around. Interestingly enough, New Order never comes up.
Well, oddly enough, Interpol sounds more like Joy Division than New Order sounds like Joy Division (with the exception of some of NO's really early stuff).
i'm only two and a half songs into Antics... so far, it sounds like these songs could have fit on last album... which isn't that big of a problem... just will probably go bland a lot quicker.
new interpol album = amazing!!!! antics is damn right!
Really? Because I thought it was fucking boring
IMO, it's a notch down from the first. It's growing on me, not bad, just nothing to get nuts about.
sick stuff!
interpol have told nme.com about the torturous process of recording their second album 'antics', with singer paul banks admitting that it nearly drove him to a breakdown.
the band spent the early part of this year recording the follow-up to 'turn on the bright lights' at tarkan studios in bridgeport connecticut, the same place they made their debut.
but for banks, the pressure of following up the runaway success of their first album made him physically sick. "it drove me to the edge," he said. "i got physically ill, i was vomiting from staying so focused for so long. the last couple of weeks i was really nauseous. everything was going great, but it was the hardest thing i'd ever done by a long way, so part of me felt it was good because now i'm so proud i don't give a fuck what comes of it. what i earned from that is the privilege of feeling comfortable with this record. but i paid the price of going through that. "there was this bar i used to escape to. a real shithole dive bar. i made some local friends. sometimes i'd go and play pool by myself to get a fresh perspective. but it consumed all things, it wasn't like i thought 'oh fuck, i wish i could go bowling with my friends back home.' it was more like the record, the record, the record. it was all i was capable of thinking of. which is why i let myself get a little too consumed with it. luckily, the art didn't suffer for it. i suffered."
'antics' is due for release on september 27, although it has become the latest victim to a security breach, with tracks appearing online in the last month.
n.m.e. (http://www.nme.com)
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my comeback post....
the new one is pretty good.
much slower growing on me than the first though.
Anyone seen the video for "Evil?" Bizarre.
Click here (http://www.interpolny.com/video.php).
Quote from: PwaybloeAnyone seen the video for "Evil?" Bizarre.
Click here (http://www.interpolny.com/video.php).
Haha, that's one of the worst videos ever, I love it
Quote from: SleuthQuote from: PwaybloeAnyone seen the video for "Evil?" Bizarre.
Click here (http://www.interpolny.com/video.php).
Haha, that's one of the worst videos ever, I love it
what a fucking peice of shit
i just picked up Turn on the Bright lights
i like the music very much, but what catches my attention is that it's so beautifully produced.
I think it's very sexy.
no, antics is sexy. that's a damn good album.
picked it up today.
Quote from: Reinhold Messnerno, antics is sexy. that's a damn good album.
picked it up today.
Agreed. That's what I meant, I don't know why I didn't specify.
Call Interpol 'The Worst Band On The Planet' — They Don't Care
'With our band, there's always going to be something,' singer says.
Source: MTV
There comes a time in the career of nearly every band when they officially stop listening to what critics have to say about them. For Interpol, you'd think that time is now.
See, recently, Britain's fabulously, er, bandwagon-leaping music publication, the New Musical Express, wrote a fawning review of a live performance by Editors, a band that could charitably be described as "Interpol-esque." And while the review itself wasn't exactly newsworthy, the fact that its author chose to kick it off by calling Interpol "the worst band on the planet, a tuneless, talentless shower of Joy Division copyist f---wits" is.
Not to mention that he describes frontman Paul Banks as a "whining, dreary, two-note-monotone singer" who sounds like "a cancerous baboon having his tonsils amputated," suggests that Banks' bandmates should be "dragged c--k-first into the nearest ditch, shot in the head with a bolt gun and have their entrails fed to diseased rats," and calls the band's upcoming album, Our Love to Admire, "unmitigated dogsh--."
So you'd think Banks would read that, throw his hands in the air, and let loose a similar fusillade of expletives (or maybe he'd have a good chuckle at the fact that some writer is losing his mind over a band like Editors).
But, in actuality, Banks says he's long ago given up reading — or caring — what the media has to say about his band, which is more of a survival mechanism than anything else, considering just how many people have so much to say about Interpol.
"With our band, there's always going to be something," he said. "I learned very quickly — almost from the first album — not to read that stuff, because it has nothing to do with what I do," he said. "If you need to do something creatively, you just do it. You don't worry what people are gonna think. I mean, I don't really put that much stock into what any jackass on the street tells me about anything, so why put much stock into something just because it's in print?"
And that mindset will undoubtedly serve Banks well in the coming months, as Interpol unveil Love (due July 10), a sonically spacious and lyrically amorous effort that takes everything the band has done on its previous two albums, rips it apart and airs it out on a clothesline over Big Sky country. It's a record that's by turns spookier ("Pioneer to the Falls"), spacier ("Mammoth") and more somber (the album-closing "The Lighthouse") than anything Interpol have done to date. It's a luminous, fully realized band album brimming with ideas and instrumentation, the kind that only comes when a group of musicians cut all ties from the outside world and go for broke. Which is exactly what Interpol did.
After wrapping a solid year of touring in support of 2004's Antics they returned home to New York and took a much-needed break ("I went out and got bombed," Banks laughed). Then they reconvened and, no longer signed to indie Matador Records, found themselves in a place both strangely familiar and, well, strange: free to be a band focused solely on the business of being a band.
"We just disappeared for three months, and then we were writing again," Banks said. "To the world we had disappeared, but we were together writing. Once the songs disappeared, we sort of derailed, but we started writing again, and it was like an evolution."
"The future wasn't totally unseen," drummer Sam Fogarino said, "but to have a moment where we didn't even worry about a record label, and to be able to exist as a band and just worry about the songs — period — and pushing our own envelope ... it wasn't something we hadn't been experienced since pre-[Turn on the Bright Lights, the band's 2002 debut]. And it's kind of amazing to be in this position after a couple of records, going to make the third, moving on to Capitol Records, and to feel that way — feeling brand new again — we're not supposed to feel that way."
Although you might not know if from Love's first single, "The Heinrich Maneuver" — which is about as classic a slab of Interpol as you can get — pretty much everything about the band is different these days.
And though the idea of change might frighten some of the band's fans and give critics yet another reason to sharpen their knives, Banks and Fogarino see Love as the best thing they've ever done, a record born out of creativity, necessity and ignoring the opinions of pretty much everyone not in Interpol.
"There's a certain alleviation of pressure that you can hear on this record," Fogarino said. "It's easier to please yourself first, and once you've done that, you're able to be way more honest with what you're trying to do."
"If there's a difference between these albums, it's that we're individually better musicians and as a band we're better songwriters. It's different in that it's an evolution for us," Banks added. "These songs couldn't have been written around Bright Lights because they're all, in my mind, better songs that we were incapable of writing back then."
god damn I hate modern music critics!
There the worst band on the planet.
yeah i wish they would just pack they're crap and hit the bricks!
quick, now someone misuse "their" to score a trifecta. their.
(ooh, meta)
Your an ass.
int'repol
Int're asswhole.
Stefen/dudes,
I heard the LP finally leaked in proper quality.
Can you point me to where this might be?
nvmnd. got it.