Turn on the Bright Lights

9.1分（79人评分）

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共35首歌曲

艺人: Interpol
语种: 英语
厂牌: Matador
发行时间: 2012年12月03日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Andy Kellman

One might go into a review like this one wondering how many words will pass before Joy Division is brought up. In this case, the answer is 16. Many are too quick to classify Interpol as mimics and lose out on discovering that little more than an allusion is being made. The music made by both bands explores the vast space between black and white and produces something pained, deftly penetrating, and beautiful. Save for a couple vocal tics, that's where the obvious parallels end. The other fleeting comparisons one can one whip up when talking about Interpol are several -- roughly the same amount that can be conjured when talking about any other guitar/drums/vocals band formed since the '90s. So, sure enough, one could play the similarity game with this record all day and bring up a pile of bands. It could be a detrimental thing to do, especially when this record is so spellbinding and doesn't deserve to be mottled with such bilge. However, this record is a special case; slaying the albatross this band has been unfairly strangled by is urgent and key. Let's: there's another Manchester band at the heart of &Say Hello to the Angels,& but that heart is bookended by a beginning and end that approaches the agitated squall of Fugazi; the torchy, elegiac &Leif Erikson& plays out like a missing scene from the Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen; the upper-register refrain near the close of &Obstacle 1& channels Shudder to Think. This record is no fun at all, the tension is rarely resolved, and -- oh no! -- it isn't exactly revolutionary, though some new shades of gray have been discovered. But you shouldn't allow your perception to be fogged by such considerations when someone has just done it for you and, most importantly, when all this brilliance is waiting to overwhelm you.

Turn on the Bright Lights

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