Hypnotic melodies in minor

Interpol from New York have made themselves comfortable in the corner between post-punk and New Wave.
Inevitably, they had to look forward to so different compare, above all, the musical influence of bands like Joy Division or The Chameleons, which one can not completely dismissed out of hand.
Nevertheless Interpol sound modern. Although quite retro, yet independent enough to have won until now relevant.

The gloomy morbid style of the quartet runs through optics and poetry around "turn on the bright lights", the band's debut.
Tom Banks' lyrics full of melancholy, despair and nihilism that allow much room for interpretation and hypnotic melodies propel this album through the ear canal of the patient listener.

The intro like "Untitled" seeming simplicity knitted and seems low in highlights, reveals itself only after several passages.
With "Obstacle 1" then you put up the pace and the guitars milling deep into the subconscious. Convince addition to this song especially the also driving "PDA" with a chorus that you have to sing inevitably - huge number - and the dramatic and elegiac "Stella Was A Diver And Always Down", a gripping piece about a prostitute, somewhere between adoration and humiliation ,
Even at the end waiting particular songs:
the playful "The New", the text of which is bursting again before drama and in the Daniel Kessler's guitar burns itself into memory and the hypnotic "Leif Erikson", perhaps the greatest song on Interpol's debut.
Songs such as "Roland" or "Hands Away" fall compared unfortunately somewhat. While the former is a monotonous Rocker, The second one has Intermezzo character - so what do not want to go with the other, great songs.

In the times in which the so-called. Indie Rock consisted almost entirely of "The bands" and the same sounding charts compatible post-punk revival stew with low nutrient 70s rock Allerlei, proved Interpol that these Retrowelle positive aspects with itself bringing and playing can also mean independence and stability under the huge shadow of the musical idols.