The touchstones are evident, but equally, only a pointer. Joy Division is the obvious beginning place. Paul Bank's vocals manage to produce the same sense of morbid claustrophobia as Ian Curtis, and Daniel Kessler offers jagged, asymmetrical guitar stabs ala Sumner or Robert Smith. Its really quite breathtaking. Like its forbearers, the song contains a dark, brooding groove of its own that takes itself into a strange and otherly place.
"She puts the weights into my little heart and she gets in my room
and she tears it apart" flails the vocalist, as 'Obstacle 1'
builds to its dark, crushing crescendo. Perhaps the style of its ending is expected.
What's not anticipated is the force and power the band creates in doing so.
Like I said, breathtaking.
Interpol - Obstacle 1
There is something mesmerisingly aggressive and dark about this song: "You go stabbing yourslef in the neck". Lose yourself in this song: you'll feel like you're drowning in the sewers under New York in a suit. You're all dirty and can't breathe...but you love it anyway.
"We can find new ways of living"