Interpol: Our Love To Admire
Interpol is evolving, but at a pace so glacial that it might take a dozen albums before anyone but the most attentive fans can readily spot the differences. Our Love To Admire, the third album from the dark-dressed New York band, and its first for Capitol after a career-defining pair for Matador, doesn't break stride. Rumors that the major-label jump would come accompanied by radio-enticing slickness weren't just exaggerated, they were plain wrong. For better and worse—mostly better—Our Love is unmistakably another Interpol disc. In other words, Internet chatters can keep saying that the band sounds exactly like Joy Division, and they'll still be pretty much half right. (And all boring.)