Can anyone direct me to new Interpol material?

http://www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmhome.html

Check out Tuxedomoon from that site, especially!!!!

Blaine L Reininger's moustache is a source of ongoing distress to me.

ploirent? sounds french

voila

(would Unter-PiL have been better? That wouldn't have been an anagram unless they'd have been called Interpul though, and that would just've been been crass. It wouldn't have actually been very accurate either)

Lansing-Dreiden-The Incomplete Triangle:Album Of The Year?

Album 5 being mixed now, apparently.

http://visualinfidelity.tumblr.com/post/72062648613

And I was going to blame the "produced by Alan Moulder" thing on Brandon Curtis, but then remember Moulder mixed the last one, didn't he.

I just realised that the person I used to discuss Interpol with has died recently, and now I have no one to laugh affectionately at Interpol with, and I just wanted to laugh at Interpol with someone somewhere, and if there's one thing ILM is good at, it's LOL-ing and good-natured mockery.

Their music was immensely important to me when I was about 12 years old, when the very notion of listening to a band or artist that wasn't on MTV / Kiss / VH1 rotation (or w/e the music channels were in the early '00s) was impossibly alien, when the idea of going to see them at a proper gig was thrilling and exciting and when poetry didn't come much deeper than "She says it helps with the lights out / Her rabid glow is like braille to the night." or "She feels that my sentimental side should be held with kid gloves / But she doesn’t know that I left my urge in the icebox". This earns them enough good will that I will always at least check in on a new album to see how it's all going. That said, hopes not high, haven't enjoyed any of their shit since Antics. This may or may not be a result of my no longer being 12-14 years old

Eff the haterz though obviously, first two albums are good clean fun and shall always remain so

Awww, I'm not a hater. I just enjoy laughing at them!

Come on, they have always been a ridiculous band.

he's right; first two albums were terrific (lyrically stupid, but terrific 80s-revivalism anyway).

I actually really like about half of the s/t.

I have tried with this band. I have tried *so* hard. I've been trying for 10 years, and then I went and tried again after Brandon joined, because he is so talented he could dronerock-out a coffee jingle.

But I just don't *get* it.

And the failure, I think, might be with me? Because they have so many signifiers of things I really love, and reference so many of my favourite bands, but every single time I try to listen to one of their records, I listen through, and think "Oh, that reminds me of..." and when the album is finished, I don't listen to it again, I just go and listen to Bauhaus or Echo & The Bunnymen or Lloyd Cole and the Commotions or whatever they have just referenced.

But then again, I actually really liked (well, loved in one case) at least two of their solo projects? Like, Banks was really quite good, and sounded like what Interpol might aspire to if they had a sense of *humour*? And Empty Mansions are freaking fantastic, and managed to evoke The Birthday Party and EVOL-era Sonic Youth and early Pixies without making me wanna go listen to those records *instead*. (But, it's entirely possible that the link making me like both of those projects was, erm, the sonic involvement of a certain silver-toothed Curtis?) Or maybe it's unfortunate that they let the hottest one, but perhaps the least talented one write all the songs? </meow>

I don't know. I just got deja vu really, really bad, so it's entirely possible I've had this exact conversation on ILX at any point in the last 10 years. Maybe *this* album will be good! Maybe I will like it.

But secretly I just think that people only like them because they are hott.

Hmm well I definitely don't think they're a band worth trying for, absolutely not. As I indicated before, they were a band who were a gateway to so much more for me at a young age, maybe the first band I liked where being "a band" actually mattered (although this could have been The Libertines actually lol) - I mean they were amongst the first bands where I came to a kind of hazy recognition that this was not just some mammoth corporate monolith (obviously didn't think of it in those terms at the time) who you watch on the music channels and hear on the radio, but actually a group of creative individuals out there making this shit happen, the slightly threatening atmosphere of going to your first gig, like the first time you go to a football match or something.

I was just the right age I think. Like, the bassline intro to 'Evil', I think that's probably the first time I can remember even being properly aware that yes, that instrument is the bass and holy shit can you make some beautiful sounds with it. They were that integral to the development of my listening habits.

And through them I came to Joy Division, and through them New Order, and yadda yadda yadda. Whole new vistas opening up because of the hallmarks and signatures they adopted from other groups.

But if you've already been introduced to all of the stuff that they opened up to me when I was younger and you haven't found anything to like in their first two albums then yeah, I don't really see why you'd pursue it. I doubt they'll ever do anything as immediate as 'Obstacle 1' or 'C'mere' again

Awww, OK, I guess I can totally understand that whole thing of "bands you adored when you were 12, that you loved because it was the first time you heard such things."

Like, that band for me, aged 12, was Duran Duran - and in some ways that's a very apt comparison, given the melding of image, fashion, art (and supermodels, etc) with music in a very seductive way. But Duran, although older people who got beyond "ugh, girls like them" would dismiss them as just nicking all the best bits of Roxy Music and Chic. Though, to me, I hear something completely original in those first 2 Duran albums, even now, so I don't think it was *entirely* the age at which I heard them making me think that.

But Interpol were really one of those bands that loads of people I knew, and loads of ILX0rs whose taste I respected at the time, were totally and completely into, and I was just mystified.

But then again, they kinda got written into a narrative, of people in NYC I associated with them. And they gave Secret Machines their first big break (and are literally responsible for even the existence of School of Seven Bells) and they have such excellent taste in terms of people they've repped and bands they've brought along as support. So I do just have this guilty feeling "Why? Why don't I like this more?" They're so tied in with fandoms that I do follow, that I know as much about them as bands I love, and I feel like I have this fannish affection enough that I will Duty-Listen to the album (don't know if Brandon is on it, he kinda had... other things going on in his life at the time. I just like the idea of Brandon as their Gillian Gilbert, who will lead them on to more interesting things. Completely implausible though it may be.) There's stuff I liked on the first album; just not enough to love.

So I guess I'm kinda anticipating the next album... by association? (They're still hott though.)

Shit, I've mentioned their hottness twice in the past 3 posts. That's bad.

They are not all equal in hottness. It's the little Britishes guitar playing one that is the hottest, to be sure.

Oh god fancying members of Interpol in 2014; what is my life.

(but then I am a man!)