The word Interpol is generally associated with international espionage, covert operations and distant ports of call. Yet since Interpol, the band, swept up listeners with their 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights, the moniker has gained new associations. It still carries global recognition. For the past two years, one could hardly open a magazine, turn on a radio or television, or step into a nightclub, without hearing Interpol’s dark, gripping songs or seeing their countenances. Despite this high level of media exposure, the quartet never lost the tension and complexity that won them acclaim worldwide.
So it remains on Antics. But what has changed, markedly, is the breadth of sounds, emotion, and characters at play in their music. Contrast the record’s stately opener, "Next Exit," with its swells of percussion and piano, and abrupt brush strokes of whammy bar, to the final track, "A Time To Be So Small," which pulls the listener in like a camera honing in on a great actor in the climatic scene of a classic film, the music building into a swirling vortex that suddenly dissolves into a quiet eddy...
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Next Exit
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Evil
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NARC
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Take You On A Cruise
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Slow Hands
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Not Even Jail
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Public Pervert
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C'Mere
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Length of Love
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A Time To Be So Small
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