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Interpol - Interpol Instores September 7th, 2010
You can always go home again, and so after one lap around the Capital Records track, Interpol have returned to Matador Records for the release of their long-awaited fourth album, a self-titled offering available Sept. 7th, 2010.
The album INTERPOL finds the New Yorker’s exploring dark musical landscapes of layered depth and intensity. In contrast to 2007’s ‘Our Love To Admire’, this self-titled opus hangs together as an album, a set of very different songs that thematically connect.
“The new record falls back towards the first,” drummer Sam Fogarino told Paste Magazine recently. “In trying to move forward, there was an unspoken realisation that you can’t let go of your sonic defining tag. There was an effort in Daniel [Kessler]‘s guitar tone; he rediscovered it playing in his loft space for a year
without anybody. The quality of that tone, played in a big room, is just beautiful. It creates an atmosphere. That big wash of reverb? It’s back.”
Available on US import, Interpol is presented in 4 unique configurations: deluxe CD with O-card (5,000 pieces earmarked for Canada), a deluxe gatefold double vinyl, plus standard CD and LP. Both LP versions feature a complimentary MP3 download coupon.
The deluxe limited edition CDs feature an O-Card and poster, while deluxe limited edition 2 LP sets are pressed on 120 gram vinyl with two 45 RPM 12″‘ discs with large centre holes. There will be limited quantities of a specially designed Interpol 45rpm adapter available.
The album has been prefaced by the track ‘Lights’, which has been downloaded over 200,000 times from the band’s website, and a video directed by legendary artist Charlie White, which is available to view at www.interpolnyc.com
A second advance offering, ‘Barricade’ is available now from iTunes, and will be performed by the band on David Letterman July 29th. A Jon Watts directed video will be premiering in mid-August. Jon has previously worked with TV On The Radio, Fatboy Slim, Death Cab and more.
Interpol will perform on Jimmy Kimmel the day following release with Jimmy Fallon happening in early November.
In the wake of bassist Carlos D’s departure following the completion of the new album, Paul, Daniel and Sam have augmented Interpol’s touring lineup to include David Pajo (Slint, Papa M, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) on bass and Secret Machines’ Brandon Curtis on keyboards.
Interpol will debut music from the album on an east coast tour this summer, with confirmed Canadian dates August 9th Montréal (Metropolis) and August 10th Toronto (Kool Haus). Another round of touring will include western Canada commencing in Oct. followed by another North American trek in Jan.
For more information, please visit www.matadorrecords.com and www.beggarsgroup.ca
“‘Barricade,’ is exactly the kind of energetic, heated track you’d expect from the legendary New York band. After an opening cascade of building drums and guitars, the single bursts open, and the roller coaster begins. As with most Interpol songs, ‘Barricade’ vacillates between intense anguish (“Guess there must be a time / When there’s no more tears to cry”) and pure, humanist energy.” – AOL Radio
““Barricade” features a fairly constant boiling climatic feel. The ups and downs of tempo combined with singer Paul Banks’ urgent sounding vocals, has this single making you pay attention.” – Filter
“It’s a challenge to be dark and brooding by the seashore when July temperatures make your all-black wardrobe seem like a gross miscalculation, but having a brand-new Interpol moper on your iPod certainly helps.” – Georgia Straight (Vancouver) on Barricade
From the highly melodic “Barricade” and “Lights” through the snarling “Memory Serves” and the extraordinary triptych of connected tracks that close the album, Interpol have never made work this emotionally resonant or packed with crescendos.
Mixer Alan Moulder has brought the rhythm section back to the fore, anchoring a thicket of orchestral sound that brings to mind touchstones from black metal to ‘70s art rock, but always remains identifiably Interpol. Hypnotic, bizarre, always indelible, ‘Interpol’ is the band’s magnum opus.
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