Who is Interpol

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Ranked #540 in Music, #17,916 overall

90s Indie Rock

Interpol is a rock band based in New York City and currently signed to Capitol Records/EMI. Its members are Paul Banks (vocals and guitar), Carlos Dengler (bass and keyboards), Sam Fogarino (drums), and Daniel Kessler (guitar and background vocals).

Interpol's sound is characterized by a dark mix of bass throb and choppy, sparse guitar. They have been compared to Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen and The Chameleons for their similarly stark, sombre sound and obtuse lyrics. Though Interpol's debut album, Turn on the Bright Lights, is spare and tentative, Antics suggests a band confident to expand to a fuller sound. Both Antics and Turn on the Bright Lights were recorded at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The band formed when Daniel Kessler met drummer Greg Drudy, now a member of post-hardcore/screamo band Hot Cross, on the New York University campus. Kessler later added Carlos D. on the bass after meeting him in a history class. The line-up was complete after Kessler ran into Paul Banks, a friend whom he had met in Paris. In 2000, Sam Fogarino, whom the band knew through his job at a local record store, replaced Drudy. The band released a new song, 'Direction', on the soundtrack of the television program 'Six Feet Under' on June 28, 2005. Shortly thereafter they left Matador for a major label. (read more)

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Evil

Rosemary
Heaven restores you in life
Coming with me
Through the aging, the fear and the strife
It's the smiling on the package
It's the faces in the sand
It's the thought that holds you upwards
Embracing me with two hands
Right, we'll take you places
Yeah maybe to the beach
When your friends they do come crying
Tell them how your pleasure's set up on slow-release

Evil Lyrics

Interpol - Evil

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Top Albums

Our Love to Admire

Including: No I in Threesome, All Fired Up, Mammoth, and more...

Release Date: 07/10/2007

Turn on the Bright Lights

Including: Say Hello to the Angels, Leif Erikson, Untitled, and more...

Release Date: 10/08/2002

Antics

106 reviews:
Including: Evil, Length of Love, A Time to Be So Small, and more...

Release Date: 09/28/2004

The Black EP

1 review:
Including: Say Hello to the Angels, Leif Erikson [Black Session], Obstacle 1 [Black Session], and more...

Release Date: 08/25/2003

Mammoth

Release Date: 09/10/2007

On Tour

Interpol - NYC Rockers Return

Not to be confused with the International Criminal Police Organization, NYC's very own have found commercial success after only two albums. Blending a dark mix of pulsating bass with choppy guitar riffs, Interpol has a sound that's uniquely their own. Can their third album trump the first two and send Interpol into indie rock superstardom? We think so, so stay tuned.

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