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…
<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