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INTERPOL - Our Love To Admire
| MusicOMH.com | | The most surprising thing about Our Love To Admire, once you're over the initial shocks of a) that willfully non-Interpolesque cover art and b) Carlos D's new varmint-chewing facial hair, is the fact that for the first time the band have cracked open the shades long enough to allow a few rays of light to penetrate the ever-gloomy world which they inhabit....full text |
| | Entertainment Weekly | | These are finicky musical times, and the flashes of countless indie darlings have burned out faster than you could clap your hands and say yeah. Give New York-based post-punk outfit Interpol credit, then, for consistently living up to expectations. Their sophomore effort, 2004's Antics, refused to slump, becoming a genuine chart-pleaser — yet they never sacrificed a lick of devotion to their occasionally droning take on Joy Division's dour legacy. The band took three and a half years to release their major-label debut (and their fixation has moved on to the Cure, circa Pornography), but they appear to have used every minute of that intervening period to meticulously craft their return....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | uscious tension and sublime release has pervaded every one of their songs with devastating effect. Nigh on three years ago we were sat questioning how, exactly, the timelessly brittle post-punk paranoia the band created on 2002’s debut Turn On The Bright Lights could be followed. Follow-up, the broader Antics, was a different album. It turned the dimmer switch on the grim city streets and bleak lifestyles in the Big Apple and mixed stripped-back and funky-as-fuck disco-inspired basslines with clinical percussion and skilful guitar textures. By this point the rock star luxuries were firmly within the bands grasp, and the mystery of the female of the species fixated front man Paul Banks more than ever before. He had fallen in love and, in contrast to the pure despair displayed on the debut, now crooned with maudlin authority. How could the lyric “You make me want to pick up a guitar, and celebrate the myriad ways that I love you” (on ‘Slow Hands’) be forgotten? Likewise, “I am the scavenger between the sheets of union”, from ‘Take You On A Cruise’. The guile Banks displayed in such lyrical content whilst managing to avoid distasteful cliché when put to song was bloody miraculous. And now, with a title like Our Love To Admire, it’s largely business as usual on album number three....full text |
| | AbsolutePunk | | Straylight Run has always frustrated me. Ever since hearing those 6 self-released demos in 2003, I have been waiting and waiting for this band to awe me, to release a great record. But 2004’s self-titled release, which had a handful of great songs, was too produced and unfocused, while 2005’s EP “Prepare To Be Wrong” was a step in the right direction, but too short to have any lasting impact on me. But with their second full-length (and major label debut), Straylight Run have finally wowed me....full text |
| | Sputnikmusic.com | | With their second full-length and major label debut, The Needles The Space, Straylight Run are poised to set the music world alight. From start to finish, it is abundantly clear how far this band have come since the summer of 2003 and their original online demo. The new album continues the experimental theme of Prepare To Be Wrong [EP] and grabs the listener from the opening track....full text |
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