Product Description

New York's Interpol release their second album 'Antics' forinfluential US indie label Matador. Moving on from the darker sound of their debut, the band continue to explore their angular guitar and synth influences which has earned them comparisons to Joy Division, Television, The Chameleons and Echo & The Bunnymen.

Track Listing

1. Next Exit
2. Evil
3. Narc
4. Take You On A Cruise
5. Slow Hands
6. Not Even Jail
7. Public Pervert
8. C'Mere
9. Length of Love
10. A Time To Be So Small

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8720 in Music
• Released on: 2004-09-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced

Amazon.co.uk Review
The number of modern rock bands pillaging from the early '80s continues to increase exponentially, but Antics, the second album from New York's Interpol, confirms they're still a cut above all but The Rapture in the elegance of their steals. Building on the twin pillars of arch detachment and icy rock instrumentation laid out on 2002's Turn On The Bright Lights, this is a record that holds its moments of genuine emotional insight under tight rationing - but luckily, such stoicism only increases its long-term pay-off. The Interpol we know and love gels best for the remarkable "Take You on a Cruise", tangled affairs of the heart rendered magisterially through one of Banks' cryptic riddles: "The pretence is not what restricts me/ It's the circles inside". But while there are welcome deviations from the hymn sheet – take "Next Exit", a graceful introduction that cruises along on the drumbeat from The Ronettes' "Be My Baby" – it's when the edgier influences poke through the gaps that Interpol truly thrill: Daniel Kessler's intricate, Television-style guitar work, simultaneously terse and expressive on "Evil" - or Carlos Dengler's elastic, roaming bassline, as familiar in its own way as those of Joy Division's Peter Hook. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Dismal, Depressing, Boring album!
I know that a lot of people seem to have loved this album, but I merely bought it as I'd heard good things and thought I'd see what the hype was. I needn't had bothered. Poor excuse for an album. If you want something in a similar genre, get radioheads new album instead. Or i LiKE TRAiNS. Though if you're already an interpol fan, it seems that you'll like it based on other reviews!

SIMLPY GENIUS
This is one of the best albums I've heard in years and to my mind the best Interpol have made-for a previous reviewer Thom to give it 1 star is a disgrace-it is an absolute epic album that gets better & better the more you play it revealing more each time. There is not a bad track here but obvious highlights are Evil,Narc, Take You on a Cruise & the awesome Slow Hands.

Classic is an over used phrase but it is fully justified in this case

passable pastiche (if ur > 35)
Kind of interesting and possibily even fresh and dynamic if you missed the first run. Their best songs sound like the worst songs on Closer sung by Michael Stipe. I thought the Editors were an accident, but excavation whilst the topsoil is still fresh is clearly becoming a trend, which is handy because those "in the know" can continue to knock the eighties, whilst eulogising over the "new bands" that owe their every note and nuance to that same decade. Erm, something not quite adding up ...