As I’d mentioned in my previous post, Interpol recently finished recording its fourth album. That album doesn’t have a title yet, but the band has already released one song, the brooding, deliberate “Lights.” While “Lights” doesn’t exhibit the orchestral approach that the band has alluded to in interviews (not a surprising approach, considering frontman Paul Banks’ string-laden solo album and Carlos D.’s increasing forays into film scores, likely the sort of work he left the band to further pursue), “Lights” does revisit the band’s Bright Lights-era subtlety and attention to song-craft which the band has promised in even earlier interviews. Despite these allusions/promises, I remain wary of the hope that “Lights” provides. After all, “Pioneer to the Falls,” which opens Our Love to Admire, is one of the best post-Bright Lights songs Interpol has written, yet the rest of Our Love to Admire displays Interpol at its worst (so far).
Addendum: Interpol's new logo is fucking rad.
Download "Lights" for free here.
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