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The riffs here are grander, the rhythms more limber, and the melodies more memorably moody than they've been in years.
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Banks leads his dark orchestra with aplomb on Interpol's most cohesive effort since Turn On The Bright Lights.
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I guess I'm the contrarian here, but I think Interpol deserve a significant amount of respect for taking the risk and mustering the sheer talent to create something so deeply submerged in melancholia you can't even see light.
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On Interpol, he and his bandmates manage the seemingly unmanageable task of finding new wrinkles in a tightly defined sound, one that's been theirs for nearly a decade.
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UncutIt is still familiar as an Interpol album, but it's certainly their most refined, elegant and frightening release. [Oct 2010, p.97]
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Q MagazineOminous fourth album from the masters of emotional turbulence. [Oct. 2010, p. 118]
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Though the record meanders into aimless moping in its final third, most of the 10 tracks are bold, heavy and among Interpol's best.
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True, a few of these compositions will probably end up soundtracking your next funeral party; but there are hints of a band yearning to crawl out from under the weight of its own history.
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While the band's celebrity rose in the wake of national tragedy, Interpol will remind you that it's time to be worried again.
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There's still the chance that this album will finally push them into the stratosphere – you wish Interpol were globally huge, you really do – although it's likely that their future won't be written until after Dengler's tour-replacements have helped broaden the band's palette more.
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Ultimately, Interpol isn't a statement of purpose as much as it is the end of an era for the band: With Dengler gone and back on their original label, they have the ability, and perhaps necessity, to go in any direction they choose.
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The size has always worked off the razor-sharp edges of the music, with Daniel Kessler's guitar leading the way. Interpol restores some of the shine, but the music still feels softer somehow, the cuts not as precise.
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They revive their pretensions for Interpol, a surprisingly solid comeback.
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Interpol is quite possibly the record that the more rabid end of the band's fanbase would have wanted Antics to be; a consistently flowing album, the whole of which is exceedingly better than the sum of its parts.
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 90 out of 118
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Mixed: 19 out of 118
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Negative: 9 out of 118
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