Interpol - Our Love to Admire
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Artist: InterpolEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-07-10
Music Label: Capitol Records
Soundtracks:
- Pioneer To the Falls
- No I In Threesome
- The Scale
- The Heinrich Maneuver
- Mammoth
- Pace Is the Trick
- All Fired Up
- Rest My Chemistry
- Who Do You Think
- Wrecking Ball
- The Lighthouse
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Free Music Review: The Best Band Out
Hit: 5 Stars
Come on haters. Lay off. Interpol is one of those bands that you either LOVE or you Hate/Listen to casually but diss every once and awhile.I love every Interpol album, how could you not? It seems like they design songs with one thing in mind: how good the song will sound. This may be an obvious goal when writing music, but how come so many "indie" bands have songs that don't have epic build ups/catchy hooks/mysteroius yet emotional lyrics/ and a bassist with a moustache? Seroiusly, this album rules! First song..amazing..gotta love when Sam goes crazy on those ?two? snare drums. No I In Threesome does this thing with the guitars and bass that makes it seem like you are in a cave of amazing emotional sound..complete with incredible echoes from carlos's bass, the lyrics always make me smile too. The Scale is so awesome, its super slow for Interpol yet super powerful. I love the way the guiats sound...i'm guessing its Paul who is doing those sparse chords while Dan is shredding it up with that sick riff. The drumming on The Scale is awesome..so are the lyrics. Interpol makes really empowering music, their music and lyrics work together to make you feel like you are experiencing an incredibly intense moment in a relationship. Interpol would never sing something like "I'm so happy you love me", instead they make it epic and more romantic, "Through the storms and the light, baby you've stood by my side/ and life is wine". The single off of the album is actually my least favorite track. Mammoth is sweet. Pace is the trick is AWESOME..one of my new favorite Interpol songs. It puts you in the zone right away and the end is really cool with just the guitar and Sam on the drums. Another reviewer mentioned how cool Who Do You Think? is, and i can't agree more. That bassline! Wow! Wrecking ball is just so epic..what more can you say? Don't....Wait...
and then the closing track just destroys you with that "i'm the last man alive on earth who knows how to love" guitar line from Dan that somehow transforms into "We are the best band alive and Carlos probably came up with that awesome sound...we THINK he is using a xylophone but who cares!"
Don't...Wait...
Buy Our Love To Admire..the title says it all. Interpol...one of the best.
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Moving up to a major label has hardly lifted Interpol's spirits. This is a good thing. Even with the twisted Wild Kingdom album cover and bassist Carlos Dengler's unexpected Wild West makeover, on its third studio album the black-clad New York quartet still sounds inflexibly menacing, grasping tighter than ever to its doomy post-punk influences and delving further into frontman Paul Banks's emotional unrest. Everything sounds a little bigger and brighter, sure, but at their core songs like "Rest My Chemistry" and "Wrecking Ball" are heroically sinister, goaded on by prickly riffs and slow-bleeding rhythms. The group briefly jumps to life on the buzzing "Heinrich Manouver" and exhibits an unexpected dash of humor on "No I in Threesome," but it's the closing "Lighthouse" that best defines the set--a late-night lament that simply steals away into the dark. --Aidin Vaziri
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Our Love To Admire is at once unmistakably Interpol and undeniably new. The witty and perverse "No I In Threesome" is an upbeat ode to shaking up a staid relationship propelled by Carlos D's peerless bass melody while the tenderly observant "Pace Is the Trick" proves that the band are still the masters of the dramatic - check the painful pause right before the sinfully satisfying return of Sam's thundering drums and Daniel's ringing lead guitar. The band's impressively seductive evolution is obvious all over the record, but never more so than on tracks like "Mammoth," "Who Do You Think" and on the album's lyrical centerpiece, the ghostly "Rest My Chemistry." While Daniel is understandably proud of the song he cautions against reading too much autobiography into its lyrics. "We always leave the interpretation to the listener," he says. "I mean, you shouldn't watch a movie for the first time listening to the director's commentary!" Our Love to Admire closes with "The Lighthouse," a funereal dirge that is among the most unexpected and memorable songs ever recorded by the band. Almost entirely percussion-free, the song is constructed around Daniel's mournful guitar and Paul's sparten lyrics. Not only is it one of their finest moments to date, it provides the album's most goose-bump inducing moment, the very same reflex shivers that make Interpol live shows such an exhilarating experience. As the very last song the band recorded for the album it was, they say, the hardest to play. The hypnotic guitar part was played on a 50-year-old guitar that had toxins on the strings, providing Daniel with a blistering and painful sensation in his fingers. The band weren't even sure the track would make it out of the studio, but once they heard Paul's remarkable vocals they were floored. The song - and the album - doesn't so much end as it bleeds to a close with a long, echoey coda filled with feedback and strings. A fittingly dramatic end to a stunning and emotional journey. Interpol is back, every bit as good as before but charged with a new spirit, a new direction, a new label and, most of all, a new confidence.
Limited two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) Tour Edition of Interpol's 2007 release. This tour edition features a bonus DVD which includes six live tracks from the bands performance at the London Astoria in 2007 plus the promo videos for 'The Heinrich Maneuver' and 'No I In Threesome'. Our Love To Admire is at once unmistakably Interpol and undeniably new. The band's impressively seductive evolution is obvious all over the record, but never more so than on tracks like 'Mammoth,' 'Who Do You Think' and on the album's lyrical centerpiece, the ghostly 'Rest My Chemistry.' Interpol is back, every bit as good as before but charged with a new spirit, a new direction, a new label and, most of all, a new confidence. EMI. 2008.
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