From theĪlbum’s surrounding sessions, this is the only previously unreleased Other than the usual array of B-sides and rarities, your real reasonįor re-investing in TOTBL is ‘Gavilan (Cubed)’. No wonder Katis was signed up by The National to craft Alligator and Boxer into indie rock masterpieces. In these early recordings, he’s positioned too high in the mix, dwarfing Daniel Kessler and co with an anemic drawl. On record Paul Banks’ could sing the theme tune to Postman Pat and threaten to be submerged by a wave of uncontrollable distress. ‘PDA’ and ‘Leif Erikson’ sound worlds apart from their finished versions, lacking the endless, echoing sadness that will come to define them. At least with the demos on disc two of this re-release, you’ll understand just how much Interpol relied on producer Peter Katis to mould their songs. It is a wonderful record, but as is the eternal fate of all reissues, the tracklisting of TOTBL’s Tenth Anniversary Edition favours completism rather than quality control. Purposefully vague so you can project your own anxieties onto the Insurmountable, ‘Obstacle 2’ is inevitable and everything is Perversions of ‘Roland’ and ‘Stella.’ plead for your company so theyĬan suffocate in shared isolation. In ‘NYC’ and ‘Obstacle 1’ yet their fog of intimacy is oppressive.Īmidst a swirl of shrieking guitars and weary baritone, the private Like Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, its horrorsĬrash over you in a relentlessly mundane manner. Thankfully TOTBL is still a miserable record to experience inįull. Worse still, the remaining band members are now on hiatus pursuing other solo projects and, much like The Strokes, seem to view their day job as exactly that. Carlos Dengler left Interpol two years ago, taking with him a magnetic talent for plucking infinite sorrow from a bass guitar. Who arrived fully formed but who are now more fractured than ever before. I wanted to know whether time had diminished the debut album of a band So why on earth I would volunteer to review its Tenth Anniversary Edition? In short: curiosity got the better of me. Teenage angst in and was now locked away on iTunes never to be touchedĪgain. Whole heap of memories, this was a record I had invested plenty of Have had to ban myself from listening to. The band (Banks, Kessler & Fogarino) is currently working on new material in their native New York, due for release through Matador Records in 2018.Interpol’s Turn On The Bright Lights is the only album I Turn On The Bright Lights has sold over a million albums to date, and continues to be a complex, melodic, unforgettable debut release. Over the next decade and a half, Interpol would go on to wide critical and commercial acclaim, with four subsequent high-charting records on the Billboard 200 earning rave reviews across the map from Rolling Stone to TIME performing on late night television shows including Late Show with David Letterman and Conan and playing major festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Primavera. In 2002, with Sam Fogarino on drums, the band signed to Matador Records and released Turn On The Bright Lights, which made it to tenth position on NME’s list of 2002’s top releases while Pitchfork named it the year's #1 album. Interpol began in New York in 1997, when guitarist Daniel Kessler recruited bassist Carlos Dengler and singer/guitarist Paul Banks to form a band. Tickets for the shows (listed below) will go on sale this Friday, January 27th.
Interpol will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of their debut album Turn On The Bright Lights by playing the record in its entirety during a run of European headline and festival dates this summer.
INTERPOL ANNOUNCES TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS 15th ANNIVERSARY TOUR
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