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Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Downĥ. The album will be available as a double CD+DVD, double LP+DVD, and digital album with digital booklet.Ĩ. #Interpol turn on the bright lights 10th anniversary rar plusNow fully remastered in a beautiful deluxe hardbound book with unreleased photos (48 pages in the CD, 28 large pages in the vinyl) and a second disc of bonus tracks, many unreleased, plus demos and B-sides and a DVD. The spare, lean textures, darkly oblique lyrics and suave stage presence were entirely different from the bands who preceded them on the charts and the radio. Ten years ago, Interpol’s debut album seized the imagination of a generation. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights: The 10th Anniversary Edition (2012) Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (2012).txt flacġ0 - Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down. Hadn’t stared into the mechanics of an album which I’d left well aloneįor over four years.08 - Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down.flacĠ5 - Get the Girls (Song 5). Which is mercifully faithful to the original. TOTBL’s minor key tragedy is enhanced by a remastering job Of pleasure out of poring over three versions of ‘NYC’ beforeĭeciding which one is the most gut-wrenching. Own the Fukd ID #3 and Precipitate EPs, then this is anĮasy way to get your hands on ‘Precipitate’ and ‘Song Seven’ withoutīecoming suicidal over the state of your overdraft.Īll these 17 extra tracks really do is underline just how right #Interpol turn on the bright lights 10th anniversary rar fullOn a record that’s full of sprawling self-penned notes to misery, it’sĭwarfed in stature by both ‘The New’ and ‘Specialist’. Track and a reminder of just how little material Interpol had at theirĭisposal in their early days. From theĪlbum’s surrounding sessions, this is the only previously unreleased Other than the usual array of B-sides and rarities, your real reasonįor re-investing in TOTBL is ‘Gavilan (Cubed)’. No wonder Katis was signed up by The National to craft Alligator and Boxer into indie rock masterpieces. ![]() In these early recordings, he’s positioned too high in the mix, dwarfing Daniel Kessler and co with an anemic drawl. On record Paul Banks’ could sing the theme tune to Postman Pat and threaten to be submerged by a wave of uncontrollable distress. ‘PDA’ and ‘Leif Erikson’ sound worlds apart from their finished versions, lacking the endless, echoing sadness that will come to define them. At least with the demos on disc two of this re-release, you’ll understand just how much Interpol relied on producer Peter Katis to mould their songs. It is a wonderful record, but as is the eternal fate of all reissues, the tracklisting of TOTBL’s Tenth Anniversary Edition favours completism rather than quality control. Purposefully vague so you can project your own anxieties onto the Insurmountable, ‘Obstacle 2’ is inevitable and everything is Perversions of ‘Roland’ and ‘Stella.’ plead for your company so theyĬan suffocate in shared isolation. In ‘NYC’ and ‘Obstacle 1’ yet their fog of intimacy is oppressive.Īmidst a swirl of shrieking guitars and weary baritone, the private Like Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, its horrorsĬrash over you in a relentlessly mundane manner. Thankfully TOTBL is still a miserable record to experience inįull. Worse still, the remaining band members are now on hiatus pursuing other solo projects and, much like The Strokes, seem to view their day job as exactly that. Carlos Dengler left Interpol two years ago, taking with him a magnetic talent for plucking infinite sorrow from a bass guitar. Who arrived fully formed but who are now more fractured than ever before. I wanted to know whether time had diminished the debut album of a band So why on earth I would volunteer to review its Tenth Anniversary Edition? In short: curiosity got the better of me. Teenage angst in and was now locked away on iTunes never to be touchedĪgain. Whole heap of memories, this was a record I had invested plenty of Have had to ban myself from listening to. Interpol’s Turn On The Bright Lights is the only album I ![]()
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