Artist: Interpol
Album: Our Love to Admire
Label: Capitol
Year:2007
Reviewed by: Kat aLan
If you like eighties music, if you lived in the eighties, if you know someone who lived in the eighties, if your grandmother is in her eighties, you’ll love this!
For a modern band, Interpol certainly impressed me.
These are guys whose parents must have been real eighties freaks, kept all their old LP’s and breastfed on their kids. This band sounds like all the greats rolled into one.
This is an album you can sit around with your know-it-all friends and identify all the various bands woven into the rich fabric of this collection of songs.
From track one you know that you’ve entered a time warp or some twilight zone where all the riffs, samples and beats of the eighties retired to die. There’s Echo and The Bunnymen; there’s that driving beat of The Cure; there’s ABC; there’s Simple Minds’ drumming; there’s (dare I say it) some very U2 guitar work.
The list continues…
But be ye not fooled. This is
not some namby-pamby Eighties cover, revival or memorabilia band, heck
no, their songs are carefully and intelligently put together and worked,
their lyrics are carefully thought out and pondered over – which is
oft sadly lacking in lots of contemporary music these days.
There’s not much more I can say about Interpol; I don’t know who they are, where they’re from, what their influences are (beside the obvious). In short, this is a nice band, a good band, a thinking band. A breath of lightly veiled angst- and rebellion-flavored air from an era long gone by to impose itself on our jaded millennium weary ears.
So listen to this; prepare yourself for lengthy philosophical discussions and debates about origins and influences; and above all, enjoy!
