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.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
― markers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― markers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ on "The O'Reilly Factor" tonight.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Feel like Carlos made the right call. Feeling like they needed 2 call Carles 4 inspirationbro #RUbalearic?
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 15:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 20:54 (thirteen years ago) link
cosign piscesx I wuz a believer.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:56 (thirteen years ago) link
her love's a pony
― markers, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 June 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link