Our Love To Admire
"The songs ripple with [New York City's] energy," NME said of the album, "enveloping atmospherics seep into the senses giving the every day a film noir quality."
After the tight, familiar turns of 2004's Antics and a major label deal, these dapper NYC rockers' lofty aspirations are finally kicking in. Horns, extended outros, strings, an oboe, and album art featuring more than three colors-- welcome to the new world of Interpol.
Interpol is evolving, but at a pace so glacial that it might take a dozen albums before anyone but the most attentive fans can readily spot the differences. Our Love To Admire, the third album from the dark-dressed New York band, and its first for Capitol after a career-defining pair for Matador, doesn't break stride.…
The album sleeve for Our Love to Admire depicts a stricken deer, caught by two hunting lions, trapped in its final moments of life before jaws clamp round its neck. The animals look fake, as does the background image – stuffed, long since dead, set in a…
Though Our Love to Admire is technically Interpol's first major-label album, the way the band attempted to streamline the gorgeously dark atmospherics of Turn on the Bright Lights into something more marketable on Antics made that album feel more like their big-time debut than this album does.
<p>Ignore all the talk of inter-band strife: the brooding post-punk quartet have never sounded this unified, insists <strong>Alex Denney</strong>.</p>
High-gloss post-punk primed for the world's stadiums; plus Q&A with Kessler and Banks