Interpol
Our Love To Admire

... immensely. They were tight as on Monday night and the new songs sounded class. Top review too. Which is nice.

excellently excellent.

that it is another brilliant album. Looking forward to getting it and seeing them in birmingham and reading.

I'm gonna be all over it

I wanted to love this album but I'd give it a six or seven at most. Kessler seems to be recycling his guitar lines; the drums are weak; Carlos' bass doesn't sound dangerous any more...

"well-polished album" sums it up, but that's not what I listen to Interpol for. Pioneer to the falls is the highpoint, but even that sounds a little bit contrived to my ears.

Very disappointing.

which was pretty rubbish

Bloody hell, this album barely musters a 6. It's a turgid, repetitive rehashed collection of songs that completely ape Antics, with a pinch of added Danny Elfman on two songs. I love Interpol but seriously, this is silly. Pauk Banks could fart in a cave and all the critics would collectively praise his efforts.

or perhaps sideways, but either way, Mammoth is fantastic.

what the frick is the sound of a "dangerous" bass guitar?

collective heads with a major label deal...the album (what i've heard of it)and circumstances of it just shout SPLIT/MUSICAL OBLIVION to me ... which would be a shame becasue there a good band

its an album that close to perfect.

I've been listening it to weeks now and every time something new unfolds. Simply brilliant.

I didn't want to compare the two but it is irresistable, interpol piss all over editors.

killing it not fucking it.

*tut*

are an empty, soulless husk of a band compared to Interpol

that's made my day

Are all pomp and grand gesture with no substance whatsoever.

The saddest thing he's ever seen is "smokers outside the hospital doors"?

Wow, that is, like, so poetic man.

Jesus, the art of subtlety is obviously lost on him.

That's what happens I suppose, when you get sponsored by a phone company, presented by a national radio station, in association with a soft drink and hosted by Alex Zane.

Souless.

Whereas Interpol do what Editors are trying to achieve with each album, bettering the one before.

enough of this, when's that Paul Banks: Farting In A Cave EP out?

as I'm sure this is. Last time I listened to the editors album there was plenty of substance and it's certainly a very emotionally charged album - tug on my heart strings a few times anyway.

"What I'm saying is that whereas Interpol possess a subtle power Editors seem to want to remind everyone 'Hey, we're deep and meaningful' Like that's their 'thing'."

but editors aren't "deep and meaningful". unless you consider - 'the saddest thing i ever saw, was smokers outside the hospital doors' profound.

than antics, almost as good as TOTBL. Great review

About the whole Editors X Interpol dispute, am I the only one thinking that these two bands sound nothing alike, especially after their new albums?

Yet more dirgey, unutterably depressing shite from a band that totally misses the point of both Joy Division and the entire post-punk movement. And it gets 9/10? Fuck me. This is clearly a band for people who think Thom Yorke is just that little bit too happy-go-lucky these days.

If I wanted to listen to white, rich, middle-class Americans moaning about their supposedly 'miserable' lives I'd become a fucking shrink and charge $500 an hour for the 'privilege'. I certainly wouldn't pay £7.99 to listen to the wallowing tossers. 9/10, my arse.

Good review - on 4th listen and so far so good. I saw some discussion of the Editors below. They have their moments, but you know who sounds amazing like Interpol (at least musically)? Apartment. I always thought that about "Everyone Says I'm Paranoid," but some of the songs on the new album, if sung by Banks, could eaisly pass for some earlier interpol (listen to "Beyond my Control.") Apartment is like Interpol meets Tears for Fears. And, to be fair, there are some great songs on ther that are not so ... derivative, e.g., "My Brother Chris" and "Fall into Place" Definitely worth checking out.

Should an album which has animals raping each other on the cover be trusted? I'm not so sure.

Oh yeah that's judging a CD by its cover isn't it.

Shame on me.

...I said that's what they want people to think of them. I didn't say I consider them deep and meaningful myself. They use awful lyrics like that to try and sound deep. Instead it just sounds forced.

reviews. But pitchfork have given it a 6.0 and stylus gives it a D! I shall have to make up my own mind, god forbid.

The Editors are shite, over rated, over played and seem to be aiming for that Coldplay stadium rock status crap. No substance at all.
Secondly the Interpol album is excellent, ok it takes a few plays but that the beauty of it. It creeps up on you unexpectedly, it grows on you like the previous 2 albums. Each time you listen you'll here something different. I my opinion if you want to hear an instantly good album go and buy Kaiser Chiefs, only difference is you'll be bored with them in 2 weeks.

cause i seem to be stuck on "the Scale". i make no apologies for replaying such a cryptic yet eye-opening song over & over again.

"It's too late but today I can define the lack"

now i can only imagine it being Paul Bank's answer to all you critics who criticize his voice, his influences, the joy division & chameleon references, the major label signing, and the anticipated comparison to the gem that was TOTBL (dan azmie from singapore)

and this review is more and more relevant...definitly a 9 in my opinion..

Why do people get excited about this rubbish? Do they ever actually listen to the music? or just name drop what they think makes them look 'cool' and 'indie'? I feel the latter. This is a band that has clearly run out of any creative ideas if they ever had more than one to start with.