Interpol - Interpol
Interpol - Interpol
[Matador, 2010]
The fourth album in NYC’s Interpol discography became a self-titled one. There was talk about returning to the debut, but Paul Banks dismissed it, saying that the album will have “elegant, orchestral quality” and “some really classical stuff”.
The album is of a gently kind. There’s as if more space and air than there was in the preceding Our Love To Admire (2007).
On Summer Well the music shakes off the remains of the sleep and starts to get pumping. Just in time - the following track is the album highlight, Lights. Upbeat, with a hint of the ’70s art rock, but less pretentious and with more focus on melodies. Barricades shows some raw sounds, without much noise in it, but with a forward rhythm section, after which Always Malaise (The Man I Am) the guitars give way to beautiful keyboards and everything drowns in slow and somewhat sad beauty. All Of The Ways in a while catches up the slow tempo, adding transparency to the album.
Stylistically Interpol is a step forward compared to its predecessor. The 2007 album was more “about noise”, here its about keeping you involved and in-the-mood throughout the whole album. There’s the post-punk meat to it, and at the same time your ears aren’t overloaded with noise, but pick up the narrative part of it. You follow the story of the album and the change from the beat to the slow, from the raw indie rock to the compliments towards shoegaze and dream pop, in the middle and towards the end of the album.
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