Interpol, "Antics"

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I kinda doubt Interpol will ever do another song as good as "Evil." They have other good songs and I'm sure they will make more, but nothing like that.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Not very impressed after the first listen. I liked Bright Lights a lot, but this one strikes me as too similar (I expected a bit more of a progression) and with possibly weaker songwriting overall. Not terrible, but definitely disappointing and not something that makes me want to listen again.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't get the "weaker songwriting" thing at all - everything on Antics seems pretty accomplished to me, whereas half of their first album barely felt like songs.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:12 (nineteen years ago) link

In contrast, I wasn't impressed after the first listen or so, but haven't stopped listening to it since (now a month after its commercial release).

I won't suggest it's as end-to-end solid as "...Bright Lights" but it certainly provides Interpol with enough mid- and uptempo tracks to keep a concert, and fans thereof, chugging along.

Equal to or better than "Evil" :: "Not Even Jail" | "Take You On A Cruise" | "Slow Hands"

― nader (nader), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link

end-to-end solid

Can be interpreted as monolithic.

― nader (nader), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I saw them a few nights ago. That Crispin Glover bassist guy totally swears.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link

end-to-end solid

Can be interpreted as monolithic.

Because it's really pretty boring. If I want "disciplined" songcraft I'll listen to Beethoven or some shit. Fuck boring NY hipster-yuppie
bullshit.

― sinclair, Friday, 29 October 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah! FUCK IT!!

― Turd Sandwich (nader), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

I like c'mere. The verses rock. Not the lyrics, but the expression.

Evil is good, everything else is like the worst songs of bright lights.

maybe they were on drugs when they wrote the lyrics? nirvana had sick lyrics and they were nonsensical. but these are just lame. maybe they should get into heroin.

I wish they'd do a radiohead and get into electronic sounds.
or do a sonic youth and do something interesting with their guitars.

― Anko (Anko), Sunday, 31 October 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

still stands up.

― pisces, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link

SO SHIT

― wilter, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 08:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Pisces you were right and then you were wrong.

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 April 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

definitely a classic album, just as good if not better than bright lights. so sad how they lost the plot after '05. olta and s/t have some good songs but are bogged down with mediocre trash, questionable production, and an encroaching cheesiness. they still RAWK live though. i think they'll make another record

― yellow jacket (spazzmatazz), Monday, 25 March 2013 20:46 (eleven years ago) link

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