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Dog 3000
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Quick Review #3: Interpol
Feb 04, 2004, 18:08
Listened to: "NYC", "PDA", "Obstacle #1", "The New" and "Specialist" by Interpol -- annointed as "the Next Big Thing" in the current issue of SPIN. These songs were chosen because they were the most popular on WinMX.

Interpol is a four-piece band: 2 guitars-bass-drums + one of the guitarists sings.

Let's start with the music: indie neopunk, echoes of Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Television, Neil Young maybe, and similar more contemporary bands (Yo La Tengo, Wedding Present, The Strokers, The Verve?) Maybe even a hint of Gary Numan and The Cars.

The singer: is pretty good actually. I can see the Ian Curtis comparison, but you wouldn't mistake one for the other. These don't sound much like Joy Division songs anyway.

The songs: I thought "PDA" was the best tune ("we have two hundred couches where you can sleep tight.") "NYC" is OK, but a bit too much of a lighters-in-the-air number for my taste (good guitar squall at the end though.) The rest of them started to sound samey.

The cover: I am predisposed not to like these guys cuz I hate rock bands that wear suits. They seem like they are being hyped as "the Next Big Strokes" and I don't care for the Strokes in the first place. But I would rather listen to Interpol than the Strokes, and I would probably enjoy seeing Interpol live. And the biggest compliment of all: of the 3 bands reviewed so far, this is the only one who has anything like their own identifiable sound.

The Unsung Competition: well geez, all those other bands from the 70's and 80's they're copping their licks from!

Next: The Darkness!
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