CollyLogic: Our Love To Admire

Our Love To Admire

24th July 2007

I guess I should say something about the latest Interpol album, seeing as I’ve just played it three times in a row. I’ve already written about this band on several occasions, and I suppose I’m knee-jerking to the middling reviews in the UK press for their third album. In a nutshell, the average review is wrong, and I am entirely right. It is perfect.

Our Love To Admire

Perfect? Well, I’m not sure yet, but bloody hell - how it has grown on me in the last few days. The opening trio of Pioneer To The Falls, No I in Threesome and The Scale equal anything they did on the past two albums. I’d even go so far as to say that Pioneer... is better than seldom heard non-album favourite The Specialist. That good, that dark.

I dunno. There is something unique about this band. Nonsensical lyrics, dark, Joy Division-inspired guitars (yes, just like Editors) and a thick slab of moodiness - but it all works, and their sound seems more mature with every track they make. I’m hooked yet again. Anyway, back to work…

Simon Collison published this on 24/07/07, at 12:03 PM

Comments

I enjoyed “An End has a Start” for a while, but then I realised that it was basically Coldplay with a deep voice. Listening to ‘Our Love’ really drives home how Interpol are the real deal - musically and lyrically.

My favourites are “Rest my Chemistry”, “Wrecking Ball” and “Pace is the trick”, but that opening threesome has really grown on me!

24/07 at 13:28 from Jon Hicks

I can understand the middling reviews; I’m still not taken by this album yet. But yours is not the only trusted voice who assigns greatness to this album, so I will stick it out and see if starts to hit the mark.

24/07 at 14:21 from Richard Rutter

I’ve had it on high rotation for about a fortnight and, as much as I love Interpol, I’m not finding much new in it. I really like it but it’s not a great leap from their last album.

25/07 at 03:54 from Marty

Can’t wait to hear it all! One of the new tracks was played on Radio 1 the other night but I was involved in a fierce Mariokart DS GP so I wasn’t listening too intently

25/07 at 10:12 from Sam H

I was really taken with it at first, especially opening with Pioneer…, but further listens didn’t really endear the album as a whole to me. The standout track for me too is Wrecking ball, deiniftely one of their best.

25/07 at 14:37 from Chris

Good album, I’m not sure if I’m as taken with it as I have been with the previous two. That said, it’s been on constant rotation (do mp3’s rotate?) since launch. Hugely enamoured with “Rest my chemistry” - Turn the volume way up, then start the track and enjoy the building plinky-plonky (technical term) intro as it crashes into that first pounding note…

28/07 at 13:28 from JamesM

I think I heard one new song whilst in HMV today so based off that and your glowing recommendation I went and bought it. Just pressed play for the first time and I’m loving Pioneer. Damn that’s good.

29/07 at 23:20 from Ben Ward

Unfortunately, I don’t like this one as the previous two. Our love is for sure a disappointment to me, though I do not consider it a bad album. I just expected more. Lighthouse is my favorite track, but it doesn’t come close to, say, Public Pervert, or Stella.

30/07 at 08:27 from Bojan

The new album is great, but I definitely prefer Antics or TONBL. I really wish they’d play some gigs in Scotland, instead of playing festivals only, like T in the Park.

Give the Editors new album a try, very interpolesque.

01/08 at 19:24 from Ewan

My favourites are “Rest my Chemistry”, “Wrecking Ball” (deiniftely one of their best) and “Pace is the trick”, but that opening threesome has really grown on me! - I fully agree these 3 are also my favorite, The new album is great! Regards

22/08 at 21:00 from Tomasz Gorski

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