Live Review: Interpol
As the stiflingly hot air punches NME in the face like an angry, invisible hair dryer, the other couple of thousand people in the venue have their eyes glued to the stage as if a momentous world event is about to happen. It’s not, obviously,...
Album review: Interpol - Interpol (Soft Limit)
Introspection is a pleasure for yourself, but bloody boring for others. With Interpol , though, enigmatic brooding has been elevated to a glamorous state of being, the refined occupation of suave dandies in chilly hotel bars, along with champagne...
10 Tracks You Have To Hear This Week (8/05/10)
1. Interpol – 'Lights' Having supplied many a nighthawk soundtrack in their time, it seems appropriate that the message heralding Interpol’s return should drop into our inbox at 1am last Thursday. With the news of the New Yorkers' return...
Interpol
You shouldn’t judge a record by its cover, but that Interpol’s ‘Our Love To Admire’ album has a snap of a stuffed lion seemingly preparing to bum an antelope, and is also great, is no coincidence. The cover of ‘Mammoth’ has a stuffed...
Interpol
You know you can normally rely on an Interpol song to start all chuggy and full of epic promise and then crash out into a blaze of serious chorus and spine-prodding guitars that make your eyes water? Well, it would seem that’s one party trick...
Interpol: Our Love To Admire
Amid all the furore over Interpol’s return, one thing’s been absent from the debate: their music. So Brandon Flowers-esque facial fuzz, major-versus-indie-label politics and Editors-sound-more-like-Joy-Division-no-Interpol-do rows have all...
Interpol: Coachella Festival, Friday April 29
As the sun goes down at Coachella, so the mood of sunkissed Cali goodwill curdles. Blue lights blot out the perfect starscape, and, on the neighbouring stage, Jarvis Cocker’s cheeky northern stand-up routine is drowned out by space-rock guitars...
Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights
When it comes to comebacks, only Elvis can match The Dark. If 2001 saw American bands tapping local heritage from Detroit to NYC, this year a grey-skinned British past is being dragged back the light. Dark angel Anglophiles Black Rebel Motorcycle...
Interpol : Olympia Theatre, Dublin/Brixton...
Wednesday April 6 After a relaxing and mellow evening the night before, I geared up for a rockin’ night out in [b]Dublin . We played at the Olympia Theatre , a gorgeous venue with actual balcony boxes. Nothing gets the blood pumping...
Interpol : London Shepherd's Bush Empire
Look around. The cult of the skinny black tie may already be on the wane. It’s not that the dark well that informs Interpol ’s dapper miserablism and stylish air of disinterest has run dry, rather it’s because they’re drinking in more...
