Interpol - Our Love to Admire

Though Our Love To Admire is technically Interpol's first major-label album, the way the band attempted to streamline the gorgeously dark atmospherics of Turn On The Bright Lights into something more marketable on Antics made that album feel more like their big-time debut than this album does. On Our Love To Admire, Interpol spends roughly half their time following Antics' gameplan of distilling their sound into readily accessible hooks, and the other half stretching their sound with deluxe arrangements and filligrees like strings, brass, and keyboards (all of which are used to grandiose effect on "Wrecking Ball"). Read More