Jesus so what if interpol had Joy Division influences? Since when is it a crime?
I love Turn on the bright lights and Antics had some lovely songson it, though I have a strange feeling that Our love to admire is going to be awful...
I keep hoping though.

Why are they in your influences if you hate them so much?

check this
http://www.kingblind.com/2007_06_01_michiganblind_archive.html#271245303981 1767577

Come on, everyone knows that Interpol are way better than Joy Division EVER were.

Interpol - like Joy Division on acid

The Editors - Like Interpol on acid

And so on.

I'm excited for this release. I was really interested in them in 2004 which led me to see them which further led me to be a bigger fan. The art on this album is abstract to the title but im sure they'll pull it off. I have no idea what it's going to sound like.

i loved the first album so much, i listened to it all the time for about 6 months. then i was so disappointed with Antics, "take you on a fuckin cruise" what the fuck was that about? and the lyrics? "you never see a finer ship in yr life" what the fuck is THAT about? he is actually singing about a crusie ship? that song makes me sick, but i loved "evil" and about 4 other songs, such a hit and miss album, it was a pity. im open to the new album, i'll embrace it like a shaggy dog does another shaggys dogs arse. i like the sound of the single a bit.

That's a good thing about me not giving a fuck about songs' lyrics in most of the cases.

Interpol is like Joy Division without the good lyrics and good instrumentals and good vocals.

and good songs.

"Why are they in your influences if you hate them so much?"i like almost every song on turn on the bright lightsleif erikson and hands away are just amazing.and i love their production. they multilayer delayed guitars forever. definitely influential.i'm sometimes influenced even by bands i don't necassarily enjoy.

the new single (forgot the name) is kind of ...crappy. well maybe not crappy compared to most stuff on the radio, but it's lazy by interpol standards. originally i was excited, but now not as much. although i did hear that some of their new stuff that they played at their shows recently were really good.

i like the goat on the front cover, totally kvlt. I don't think I'll listen to the album.

Here's the thing. They've had, what, two years since the last one? If this isn't a masterpiece, they should be ashamed.

In general, I'm getting sick of bands (SY included) who wait years between albums and then release something that doesn't make me pee with excitement. C'mon! Can't you make up an interesting 45 minutes or so worth of music in two years??

well they broke up and got back together 5 times in-between this new album and the last one according to their website. Thats got to be time consuming.

You expected a triple cd from Shellac, then :D?
BTW, I hate you american guys, Calla will be the support act for interpol's us tour.

My main problem with them too is that Bright Lights was so good that they've been downhill ever since. Don't get me wrong I like the songs on Antics too but something is lacking from it somewhere but also they keep using the same tricks over and over... From what I've heard this new album probably not going to be any different. They've got a couple really good b-sides that should have been on albums also... as for the joy division thing - it's undenyable but I think they did enough to contemporise the sound. and I don't understand people who like JD and don't like SY and vica versa - those kind of people annoy me.

I think the Editors are more influenced then by Joy Division then Interpol is.
Interpol stills has a different style while the editors are just exactly the same. (though all sparks was a masterpiece)

i saw the editors 3 times at a local club in b'ham before they were famous, i was too drunk every time i saw them to remember any of it though, i didn't even know who they were until they were famous and a friend told me that i had seen them 3 times.

listening to "the heinrich maneuver" at the moment for the first time. I really like it! it's not as good as anything from the first album, but it is still really good.