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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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