Interpol Heads For The Hills

noah | June 22, 2007 10:44 am
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ARTIST: Interpol TITLE: Our Love To Admire WEB DEBUT: June 22, 2007 RELEASE DATE: July 10, 2007 SOUND QUALITY: 160 kbps ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Yes, Admire is Interpol’s first album on a major label, but all of the New York band’s stylistic tics–reach-to-the-sky guitars, minor-key gloom–are intact on its third record. The only new wrinkle on this album comes in the form of more production (horns, guitars overdubbed so that they sound like a full-on orchestra). Which is, funnily enough, slightly problematic: The songs have an odd in-one-ear-out-the-other quality that made us go back for a second run through the album, mainly to see if we’d missed anything on first listen. WHERE TO FIND THE BEST TRACK: i rock i roll has an MP3 of the sprawling album opener “Pioneer To The Falls.” (Hype Machine also has a stream of the song.)

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