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(Feb 19, 2005)
Interpol: Antics
Rating - ****
The Interpol page
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Interpol's website says that Antics, the group's second full-length album,
was released in the U.S. on September 28, 2004. That makes me about 4 months delinquent
in getting this gem onto the WorldOfGigs review page. Fans of Interpol will certainly have
been enjoying this album for some time now, but for anyone who hasn't, wait no longer. This
is truly amazing music, and Interpol seems positioned to hit the stars.
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The songs grab your attention from the very beginning. From the first track, "Next Exit":
We ain't going to the town
We're going to the city
We're gonna trek this shit round
And make this place a heart to be part of
Again.
And from the second:
Rosemary
Heaven restores you in life
You're coming with me
Through the aging, the fear, and the strife...
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Each song opens up a new world - a world that exists in the imagination of the
band and the listener. There's no need to be tied down here; no need to use
anything mundane as a point of reference. No rehashing of tired old ideas, but
what is more important, no self-conscious avoidance of those ideas, either. The
material is from a new world, and there is nothing to either borrow from or
avoid borrowing from. Any similarity to anything you've heard before is
strictly coincidental.
Imagine that you travel the same highway every day on your way home from
work, and one day you take a side-road you never noticed before and suddenly
the colors, the shadows, the shapes, the animals, the plants, the people are
all different. And the further you go down this road the more real this
world becomes. Well, you are now imagining the musical adventure that
Interpol takes you on. One by one the cities whiz by you:
"Slow Hands," "C'mere," "Length of Love"..... every time you think you've
spotted a familiar landmark you realize that you're only seeing a glittering
shadow of something from your own memory.
This band is destined for greatness. In fact, they are already great: the
world is destined to realize it.
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