Interpol - Interpol

P4k has the tracklist and wonderful cover art for Interpol's self-titled fourth LP:

http://pitchfork.com/news/39304-interpol-unveil-cover-art-tracklist/

No song called "Interpol"? RIPOFF.

they do make nice sleeves don't they

The album art for their first two records was appropriate and functional, but art for the past two records seriously veers into some smh territory.

Also, for anyone who hasn't heard yet, Carlos D isn't in the band anymore.

disagree, I totally dug the Our Love to Admire sleeve. but I feel like everyone hated on that record but me - it wasn't as oppressively dour as the previous two, I appreciated the flashes of humor, irony, etc.

Except for "Pace Is The Trick," I thought the record was pretty abysmal. But I have trouble telling whether or not that's just because the production is terrible or because the songs are lacking and the production is terrible.

appreciated the flashes of humor, irony, etc.

Unintentional, I assure you.

you think There's No I in Threesome is unintentional

I really don't get why people hate this record, I just don't hear the dramatic departures/failings that other people do, I don't know why

I always thought they were useless apart from a couple of songs. Paul Banks' timbre and lyrics are college radio station deejay incarnate.

Our Love To Admire was boring and stuff

I don't have a problem with the timbre, but agree that loads of Banks' lyrics come off as clumsy and poorly constructed, but I think this is true of all their records, not just the third one. He does hit some good lines though, and occasionally some great ones (Next Exit for ex.), and what some people seem to take as horrible failings/flailing on Our Love to Admire I respond to more lighteartedly, there are songs that seem a bit funnier/more knowing.

xp

AND agree that loads etc

I don't think these guys are great or anything - it's all of a piece and completely predictable - but they do reliably turn out a handful of sturdy songs on each album and that works for me

I still think the first record and Antics are pretty great.

They're second only to Alicia Keys as the band I adore hating. I still get the occasional hate mail from some kid who found my Stylus review of OLTA.

Link?

yeah i like the first album still

"subway she is a porno" is probably the best lyric of the last 10 years

Stylus review

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/interpol/our-love-to-admire.htm

That greyhound > Our Love to Admire.

I love greyhounds.

Reviewed by: Alfred Soto
Reviewed on: 2007-07-10
Comments (86)

Posted 07/10/2007 - 08:18:12 AM by smwynne:
Where's the album review? Is that going to be published tomorrow? All I read was 3rd tier masturbatory freshman year bullshit. This kid is an idiot, that's for sure. Don't quit your day job. Stay sweet, bro.

Interpol - Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

After Interpol debuted in 2002 with Turn Out the Bright Lights, there wasn't really anywhere to go but down...and down they went. Antics followed, though it was little more than the document of a band long on confidence and short on ideas. Now we have Our Love to Admire, and confidence has become arrogance. Interpol knows now that people will buy anything with their name on it, so the con is officially on. Don't be surprised if the fourth album is just a peanut butter & doo-doo sandwich mashed inside a jewel case.

Me. 2007.

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp9j0xmcH61qzfp8io1_500.jpg

Did Banks email you that picture as a response to your review?

"c'mere"

you can read you can read you can read yr bad

"Length of Love"

my post is a pony

I'm stabbing myself in the neck

cook 'em up and serve 'em, pancakes, 'cause I like my breakfast

I really don't get why people hate this record, I just don't hear the dramatic departures/failings that other people do, I don't know why

shakey mo otm

or at least on that weird money that I am also on.

we can all agree that Interpol is an important cultural fixture and we would be impoverished without them

I mean I always suspected that the reception of that record was some true reactionary bullshit but I'm sure people had their reasons (i.e. Alfred, who always sort of hated them)

xpost -- Using the royal 'we' I see.

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/09/ceo_socnet/image/burger-king.jpg

And I think the new song is gorgeous and basically a huge cavern in which guitars vibrate and Paul Banks talks about sex probably.

That is awesome, that is what Interpol do and still do.

xpost because ksh is gonna turn this (rightfully) into the Joanna Newsom thread.

they always seem funny in interviews, way more than say the strokes or whoever, constant pisstakers. so yeah the humour is intentional i'd say.

their appearance in many an end of decade poll right near the top for the first album seems to have revived a lot of interest in the band. also they seem to be handling carlos' departure well:
http://i49.tinypic.com/35a22hl.jpg

hats off to em i say.

Paul Banks and the drummer look like:

http://www.acefitness.org/healthyrecipes/images/large/MF4235.JPG

the new cover reminds me of the 0PN aesthetic

i posted this here: Interpol C or D?

i agree this album needs its own thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HILOdVQvpzs&feature=related

The guys lyrics are completely ridiculous to a fabulous degree and that combined with his serious- self important crooning voice make me occasionally think this band is the funniest band ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y389MaSphE

zzzzzzzzz

not sure if I even ended up making it through listening to that, but yeah, this record is gonna be bad

scintillating revive

I actually really like this one, which is more than I can really say for Antics or the last one. Personally, I'd rate them about like this:

Turn On the Bright Lights - 9.3 (still one of my favorite albums of last decade, questionable lyrics and all)
Antics - 7.2 (was a huge disappointment at the time, but it has grown on me a bit)
Our Love to Admire - 6.8 (this never really clicked with me at all)
Interpol - 8.0ish (still early goings, don't see it really climbing a whole lot higher though)

the subway she is a porno . . . swagswag

― markers, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 8:01 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

haaaa

Silly me for wanting to actually discuss the music instead of postingquoting "funny" zings.

Although, tbh, that line in question is almost always lol-worthy.

d00d, I actually really like the first two Interpol records! there was a period from, like, fall 2008 to the beginning of 2009 where that's what I listened to the most

then I listened to Our Love To Admire, didn't like it -- did like the Banks solo record, but it doesn't touch either of the first two Interpol LPs. looks like this one isn't gonna be that great, but we'll see

I think there's a certain downhill trend:

Turn On the Bright Lights - 9,0
Antics - 8,4 (definitely a grower, but after it clicked it's magical)
Our Love to Admire - 7,7 (a few standout tracks and sometimes a bit dull, but still great)
Interpol - 7,0 - (first half is more than promising, second half is pedestrian, expect the great closing track)

really really dug both their first two albums as well. and I love their lyrics.

can't understand how even fans didn't hear that they were a one-album band.

My ratings:

Interpol EP - 8.2
Turn On the Bright Lights - 9.6
The Black EP - 7.5
Antics - 4.9
Our Love to Admire - 2.3
Interpol - ???

Antics - 4.9

http://www.gifbin.com/bin/092009/1253886001_office-no.gif

i liked antics better than bright lights, less straight up early 00s post-punk revival and more interesting and catchy melodies imo

My ratings:

Interpol EP - 8.2
Turn On the Bright Lights - 9.6
The Black EP - 7.5
Antics - 4.9
Our Love to Admire - 2.3
Interpol - ???

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor)

on this trajectory, i'd answer the ??? question at, say, 0.1.

http://www.wpcs.com.au/sitebuilder/breedsections/knowledge/asset/medium/20/shetland_pony.jpg

Got a hearly lol from that Steve C. pic upthread, thanks!

*hearty

Yikes!

a hearly lol

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/08/12/alg_weezer-hurley.jpg

Why is Pfork making markers and me wait until next week for our Interpol review...?

;_;

Listening to this now... ^___^

Bought this at Target today for $7.99. Haven't listened to it yet (busy transcribing an interview with Phil Anselmo) but my wife likes it.

Why is Pfork making markers and me wait until next week for our Interpol review...?

;_;

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor)

man, no review? thinking of going to buy the record today -- maybe

I've listened once and it's not a record that I immediately love or hate. Mood is consistent throughout, no songs really jumped out at me as THE SINGLE or THE BEST SONG. Overall it's not offensively bad, but a bit of a snooze.

is the production any better than Our Love to Admire's?

Not sure, I listened on cheap earbuds. ;_;

i'll check it out

Might get around to listening to this, only because I recently was reminded that a few songs from Turn Off The Bright Lights were "quite good". Then I'll be let down and have to punch my balls or something.

no review for Interpol, sorry d00ds u_u

Pfork review is up and... it's not pretty, lol.

Brutal in its unflinching accuracy, economy and fairness. Solid state (and that's from a guy who harshes on [nabisco] as a side job).

i like it more than the last one.

Yeah, this is still way better than the last one.

Agree, Pfork was way too kind to that horrific last album. Nabisco OTM, though.

Yeah, I can't disagree with anything he had to say, but I'd have bumped the score up a couple of points.

YLTA is an abortion, 1.x, shit was just atrocious. Feel like this is yr #6.0 guyz.

^-Y+O

OLTA was one of those albums that, as soon as I saw the cover art (still-life wildlife portrait???) and the track listing ("No I in Threesome"???) I was like "oooooooohhhhh shit, this album is going to blow."

Hi. What'd I miss?

Pfork gave Interpol s/t album a well-deserved 10.0 Best New Music as well as Best Album of 2010 since it obviously has no competition.

9 years later and I finally think I understand the 'subway she is a porno' line

OLTA was one of those albums that, as soon as I saw the cover art (still-life wildlife portrait???) and the track listing ("No I in Threesome"???) I was like "oooooooohhhhh shit, this album is going to blow."

I thought it would be hilarious! I guess it didn't entirely follow through on that either.

RIP

R u happy that Pitchfork finally euthanized Interpol so that we don’t have to keep reading?
Who is next? Broken Social Scene? Animal Collective?
Is Interpol ‘over’?
Does Interpol even ‘sell records 2 mainstreamers’?
Is Interpol for failed cool dads?

^^^ on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight.

Feel like Carlos made the right call. Feeling like they needed 2 call Carles 4 inspirationbro #RUbalearic?

Yeah the OLTA cover was a real 'oh shit' moment. Especially if you thought that the Interpol artwork /website/ merch in general around the time of 2002 was *the best* you had ever seen by a band in the modern era. Way classier and cooler than The Strokes at the time. *Man* i miss old Interpol.

Are their sensibilities so different? All I hear different about this record versus the first two is that this one has less hooks and we're all older.

cosign piscesx I wuz a believer.

her love's a pony

incredibly depressing interview with Carlos from last October that I just heard last night. goes in depth about the making of the s/t record and how he lost his mind and left the band. apparently he decided to leave, then recorded all of his bass and keyboard parts and gave them to the engineer, and never saw the band again. so the s/t record is vastly different than what it was "supposed to be"... thank goodness, I love the first half of this record so much, "Summer Well" is as good as anything on Antics. Interpol trying to go symphonic was bad news. Carlos says their goal going into the s/t record was to "make our Kid A."

https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/talk-music-talk-with-boice-carlos-dengler-podcast-interview