Its probably hard to envisage now but if it wasn't for the hype machine surrounding The Strokes during the summer of 2001 and sudden interest in all things Big Apple, chances are Interpol probably would have remained New York City's college scene's best kept secret.
Thankfully, the epic 'Turn On The Bright Lights' did see the light of day, and the rest is history as it's creators proudly acknowledge its rightful position as one of the musical masterpiece's of the 21st Century to date.
The most difficult part was always going to be about following something so damn near perfect as '...Bright Lights', but as a precursor to the highly-anticipated 'Antics' LP, 'Slow Hands' is a worthy successor that will leave diehards foaming at the mouth and those who missed out the first time burning their White Stripes CDs in protest.
Whereas previous Interpol works may have over-indulged themselves just a tad in the collective songbooks of Joy Division and The Smiths, 'Slow Hands' heralds the development of a band truly honing their own sound and vision.
Lyrically its as far away from Club Tropicana and free drinks as you're ever likely to get, with Paul Banks instead choosing to hyperventilate as he implores "Can't you see what you've done to my heart?" But this is Interpol right, and if it's not broken then why fix it?
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Took a while to get into but I love it. I put on 'Bright Lights' yesterday, after heavy rotatoin of Antics and I kinda wished that Bright Lights was recorded at the same time as Antics if you know what I mean(?!?!) - basically the production on Antics sounds really nice and you can tell that the band have really got a grip on their sound.
In saying that I prefer Bright Lights as an album - Antics is more upbeat and 'regular' rock - they use their delay/reverb pedals much less now which is a shame in my opinion ( I love that sound).
Slow Hands is great, but I prefer Evil, Narc, Take You On A Cruise, C'mere.
Saw them at the ICA and it was so great. They were on the ball and the intensity was incredible. When they played PDA, they extended the pause after the first chorus for quite a while which was v cool.
Top boys.
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Fingers crossed for the new one.
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as romance
i watch the pole dance
of the stars
makes me giggle.
but the droney guitar interlocking bit to the kick in chorus is so fucking cheap it ruins the rest of the song.
and brightlights is good
just that.
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