On their third album, NYC's Interpol serve a quiet notice that their days of being lazily compared to Joy Division, the Smiths, Chameleons, et al, should be put to pasture. Sure, those links remain, but the band is now firmly in command of a sound that is immediately identifiable as their own.
Our Love To Admire is a potently slick album, even by their standards (you can almost hear the snapping of surgical gloves as album plays...). The band displays great confidence in their appeal, never condescending to produce an obvious single on this major-label debut.
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