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After a 4 year hiatus, everyone's favorite vampires Interpol are back with a new album. First single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KmIMuLh4Vs My take: sounds like a return to form-ish? I always thought Antics and "The Specialist" were the high points of their catalogue, and this song reminds me of those. They're also on tour: JUNE 25 Wien, Austria Arena Wien Open Air 26 Sesta Al Reghena, Italy Sexto Nplugged 27 Zagreb, Croatia INmusic Festival JULY 1 Glasgow, UK TRNSMT festival 5 Roskilde, Denmark Roskilde Festival 7 London, UK Hyde Park w/ The Cure AUGUST 24 Brooklyn, NY House of Vans SETEMBER 14-16 Chicago, IL Riot Fest OCTOBER 4 Los Angeles, CA Hollywood Bowl w/ The Kills, Sunflower Bean 6 Berkeley, CA Greek Theatre w/ The Kills, Sunflower Bean NOVEMBER 6 Tokyo, Japan Akasaka Blitz 14 London, UK Royal Albert Hall 24 Copenhagen, Denmark TAP1 29 Paris, France La Salle Pleyel
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Jun 9, 2018 16:45
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Hopefully this album is better than the last, but I did end up scoring tickets to the Berkeley date.
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Jun 9, 2018 19:12
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edit: ^^^^ I fuckin' love The Kills so I dearly hope I'm in Cali in time to catch it. I thought El Pintor was at least slightly better than the self-titled, even if both of them are things I don't feel like ever listening to. I still listen to the first three semi-regularly. I hated Turn on the Bright Lights when it came out, like hated it, and really the only reasons were that I was a snob who thought it was lame that they ripped off The Chameleons so blatantly, but also my friend who had bought it and I were drunk and kind of had already decided we were gonna dump on it because of how New York the whole thing came off. After Antics blew me away I did go back to the first one and now I like it just fine, though it is a bit boring. Same with Our Love To Admire, it has some great songs but the sound palette is so monochrome and Paul's voice is, to put it diplomatically, "an acquired taste". precision fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jun 10, 2018 |
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Jun 10, 2018 16:41
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Oh, and here's them doing a remarkably cool 15-year pass on "Turn on the Bright Lights": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_wRYe8wZxU
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Jun 10, 2018 16:45
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-Atom- posted:Hopefully this album is better than the last, but I did end up scoring tickets to the Berkeley date.  It's no Antics or Turn on the Bright Lights, but there were several really enjoyable songs on it.I don't think I've ever really hated an Interpol release, just been disappointed by a couple. Like I have ZERO memory of the self-titled. I'm sure I listened to it at some point, but I can't remember anything about it. precision posted:Oh, and here's them doing a remarkably cool 15-year pass on "Turn on the Bright Lights":
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Jun 12, 2018 23:34
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Like I have ZERO memory of the self-titled. I'm sure I listened to it at some point, but I can't remember anything about it. Same. All I remember about it is that it had like, no hooks and sounded really by-the-numbers. El Pintor at least had a few gems on it.
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Jun 18, 2018 17:19
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Barricade is from the S/T right? That's a good song. Lights was pretty good too but that's all I remember from it. El Pintor was a solid album.
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Jun 18, 2018 20:20
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i hate the new song its boring and bad
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Jun 20, 2018 16:46
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The Walrus posted:i hate the new song its boring and bad This is true of everything from the second album onwards honestly.
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Jun 21, 2018 09:45
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Actually the new song is really good and so were the first three LP's. El Pintor was ok but LP4 literally put me to sleep the 2 times I listened to it. OP you said Paul's voice is an acquired taste, what bugs me worst about Interpol is how Paul's vocals just keep getting worse. I think a lot of that is the vocals getting overproduced in the recording, but I wonder if he hurt his throat or something between LP1 and LP2 to make him start singing through his nose. I really miss that desperate, unpracticed quality from the first record. At least his lyrics are still great though, super evocative.
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Jun 28, 2018 21:35
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IIRC Paul actually has had a bunch of issues with his singing voice and smoking too much, though I might be thinking of someone else. I think he should do more low key vocalizing, like on songs like Next Exit. I've always thought he has such a great lyrical style though.
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Jun 28, 2018 22:27
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So, nobody listened to it then? I'm not surprised 
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Sep 20, 2018 21:38
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It's ok, nothing super memorable to me. I did see them live last week and they still sound super tight!
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Sep 21, 2018 16:01
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It's strange to me that s/t doesn't have more fans than it does. It's got such a good/spooky feel to it. I think it flows better than any of the others.
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Sep 21, 2018 21:34
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Molestationary Store posted:This is true of everything from the second album onwards honestly. I mostly agree. Though I thought a couple of tracks on Our Love To Admire were alright. Everything Interpol has done since just sounds tired.
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Sep 22, 2018 21:24
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Blind Sally posted:I mostly agree. Though I thought a couple of tracks on Our Love To Admire were alright. Everything Interpol has done since just sounds tired. Pretty much. El Pintor had some okay songs but in general they're a band that sounds like the day after an Ecstasy trip feels like
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Sep 23, 2018 03:50
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Why can't we just play the other game? Why can't we just look the other way?
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Sep 30, 2018 04:02
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today i own a gun posted:Why can't we just play the other game? I submit my incentive is romance. I watched the pole dance of the stars.
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Sep 30, 2018 04:42
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Pavement, of all bands, wrote the seminal lyric about Ecstasy: "Ecstasy feels so good inside, now 5 hours later I'm chewin', screwin' myself with my hand."
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Sep 30, 2018 04:44
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precision posted:I submit my incentive is romance. I watched the pole dance of the stars. Heaven restores you in life You're coming with me Through the aging, the fear and the strife It's the smiling on the package It's the faces in the sand It's the thought that moves you upwards Embracing me with two hands Right will take you places Yeah maybe to the beach When your friends they do come crying Tell them now your pleasure's set upon slow-release evil
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Sep 30, 2018 19:33
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Im liking the album a whole lot more than El Pintor and the self-titled, and Im seeing them tomorrow. So thats exciting.
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Oct 6, 2018 05:35
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I'm some kind of weirdo that likes all their albums. Interpol just does it for me i dunno why
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Oct 8, 2018 03:32
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Joe the Strummer posted:I'm some kind of weirdo that likes all their albums. Interpol just does it for me i dunno why I could understand this if the record were in any way memorable but, and I guess this makes it appropriately eponymous, it's just this kind of middling ideal of "this is a generic Interpol album"
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Oct 8, 2018 05:27
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I like it OK, there are a few standout tracks I really like, but it's not one of their best. I've always felt Interpol's odd albums are great and their even albums are kinda meh. TOTBL, OLTA, and El Pintor are all really solid with a lot of standouts, Antics is OK (all the songs are pretty good, but only 1 or 2 are great), self-titled felt boring and mailed-in, and Marauder is best described as "an Interpol album" aside from a couple bangers. So if that pattern holds up, I'm looking forward to a kickass Interpol album in 2022 or so.
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Oct 8, 2018 10:11
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