★★★★★
A decade ago, Interpol emerged with this, their debut album. It was, of course, an ironic title - there was nothing bright or light about the record. Instead, it was shrouded in bleak, nihilistic darkness, channelling a morose, macabre minimalism similar to that which permeated Joy Division's music in their all-too- short career. For some, the similarity was too strong, but to call these 11 tracks derivative is myopic...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Take every great dark band from the '80s and throw them into a blender and out will spit the critics' newest wunderkinds, Interpol. It's impossible not to discuss the band's obvious influences?take Joy Division and squeeze them through a shoegazer filter; throw in some Echo & the Bunnymen, Chameleons, name-your-postpunk-band, ad naseum...
- www.plume-noire.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Rediscovering Interpol's 2002 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, is a stark reminder of the band's disappointing trajectory over the past 10 years. Interpol started out as one of the more unique bands to come out of the Y2K post-punk revival. Unlike the affected Strokes or the glossed-up Killers, these four thin Manhattanites took a sober, workmanlike approach to rock, pairing their black-and-crimson business-casual attire with churning guitars, surreal lyricism, and bleak urban imagery...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-12-19
★★★★★
No matter how one feels about Interpol's output in the 10 years since the release of their debut Turn on the Bright Lights, it's still an astonishing record. Not many bands have come into the world with such clarity of vision that the music, design, attire, and persona all fit tightly into one package...
- www.undertheradarmag.com
2012-12-10
★★★★★
On the surface, the story of Interpol's 2002 full-length debut Turn on the Bright Lights is almost annoyingly of its place and time: four guys meet in New York, start a band, make tightly-wound indie rock jams that sound great at your favorite mid-gentrification Williamsburg bar, sign to a renowned independent label, and the rest is history. But the early-aughts New York of Turn on the Bright Lights is not the young, vibrant, and impossibly cool place of cultural myth...
- pitchfork.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Photo: Most bands never achieve greatness - let alone perfection. In 2002, dark, dapper and determined, Interpol arrived. And they arrived fully-formed. So many tight-jeaned troubadors rode the mighty heights of new wave in the wake of The Strokes., before falling into irrelevance and obscurity. Above all of this furore, one band stood alone. Before inspiring wave after wave of imitators, Interpol posed the infectiously sinister side of the revival...
- www.gigwise.com
2012-12-03
★★★★★
Interpol's Turn On The Bright Lights is the only album Ihave had to ban myself from listening to. Music being the key to awhole heap of memories, this was a record I had invested plenty ofteenage angst in and was now locked away on iTunes never to be touchedagain. So why on earth I would volunteer to review its Tenth Anniversary Edition? In short: curiosity got the better of me...
- drownedinsound.com
2012-11-27
★★★★★
In the early days of the 21st century, New York was well and truly the place. ' breakthrough into the commercial sphere opened doors for further Big Apple acts to follow: and were great; A.R.E. Weapons, well, less so. And amid the throng, standing out in splendid suits, were . Unlike the instant gratification of The Strokes' , Interpol's 2002 debut, Turn On the Bright Lights, became more rewarding the more you listened to it...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Sound: Antics is Interpols second album, the follow up to 2003's Turn On The Bright Lights. Antics is a far less sombre outing, using pop hooks in songs like Evil and C'mere to embellish their already brilliant songwritng. Interpol is a NYC band, like the Strokes except with far deeper vocals, imaginative and captivating lyrics and creative drumwork...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
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