Released: 2007
Yeah, Turn On The Bright Lights, yeah breakout album, yeah ‘PDA’, yeah ‘Obstacle 1’, yeah ‘Roland’. Interpol arrived as some kind of perfectly/imperfectly formed archetype, kool kids from the Lower East Side willing to do more than the most that you could do, and that was fine, even if they sounded like they’d been shat out of some grim British city’s concrete womb c.1980.
Let’s not even mention that English band, because then came Antics, with the twisted soul of opener Next Exit and Evil’s guile soaked militaria: progress of sorts, the kind that was utterly vital to a band who’d been so indelibly typecast, whether by their own design or otherwise.
It wasn’t however until their difficult third album Our Love To Admire that Paul Banks and co. finally sounded like they were at peace with everything, including themselves. “My friends they come/and the lines they go by” he throated the druglore inspired ‘Rest My Chemistry’, but it was ‘The Heinrich Maneuver’ that really hit the spot, a grinding, rock n’ roll tussle that indelibly, finally, was something they could call their own.
The Voice Of Unreason 