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| Turn on the Bright Lights | 
 enlarge | Artist: Interpol
Label: Matador Records
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (488 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2054
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 10545
UPC: 766481845522
EAN: 0744861054528
ASIN: B00006BTCA
Publication Date: 2002
Release Date: October 8, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Obstacle 1 - Interpol, Interpol | | • | NYC - Interpol, Interpol | | • | PDA | | • | Say Hello to the Angels | | • | Hands Away | | • | Obstacle 2 | | • | Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down | | • | Roland | | • | The New | | • | Leif Erikson |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Album Description
Australian version of the absolutely stunning full-length debut from New York's Interpol. Think Joy Division meets Psychedelic Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen and the Smiths. Includes the bonus track, 'Specialist'. Matador. 2002.
Amazon.com
Interpol create literate, atmospheric, moody, trashy post-punk music that recalls '80s faves the Psychedelic Furs. And this is definitely a good thing. While most young bands are content to rhyme "make it" with "fake it," Interpol pens melodramatic tales of tortured and tortuous urban relationships that are truly refreshing. Like their peers the Strokes, they're bright, sophisticated, and meticulous enough to build stirring soundscapes. Turn On the Bright Lights is a must for anyone who missed Echo & the Bunnymen, the Furs, and Joy Division the first time around. --Dominic Wills
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| Customer Reviews: Read 483 more reviews...
 Five years later and I STILL listen to this on a regular basis September 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The best metaphors to describe this album is a moire pattern. Moire occurs when two sets of parallel lines intersect, like when you cross two screen doors or videotape a CRT television. The result is a bulging curve that is drawn from the parallel lines. This is Interpol's music. The guitar parts taken individually are pretty simple and repetitive, but they intersect and play off of each other to create bounding moire patterns that are both grounded yet defying gravity. The drum and bass undercurrents are both stiff and lucid at the same time. The amazing thing is that none of it feels cold, clinical, or planned; even though the music itself is cool, it's never cold. There's still a lively messiness to the parts, like they're overflowing into each other, like they're the tightest and the most adventurous jam band in the world.
It is very easy to create a weightless South Park farce. Lesser bands really don't have any purpose or logic behind their guitar parts, it's like they spin a plastic wheel to decide which notes to play next. Or, the compositions are so stale that it feels like it was composed in a word processor first. Interpol stands out to me as better than the rest, even better than their "predecessors" such as Joy Division or the Chameleons, who bear superficial similarities but don't share any structural similarities. One of the best albums of the 2000's.
these guys are from nu yawk August 4, 2008
derivative...duh. terrific.. yes. the style of music is absorbed enough to where the players make it their own. pays respect to earlier artists like joy division, echo, cure, wire, etc. fans of this may also like acts such as the german shepherds, minimal man, rick kaley and the menacing mutants, friction, cat party, lost sounds, and new collapse.
 Derivative post-post-punk pop pin-up July 30, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
After several listens, I just can't get rid of the soapy aftertaste of their second-hand Psy-Furs, Joy Division, Talking Heads/TearDrop Explodes/Echo and the Bunnymen (with a dash of U2). Considering all the hype about these guys, I was disappointed. How are they "new and refreshing"? And how are they any different than say the equally derivative Killers or worse, Good Charlotte?
These guys are no Joy Division.
Wonderful from start to finish June 27, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Turn On the Bright Lights is one of my all-time favorite albums, period!
It's awesome! Catchy as hell.
Light and dark, happy and sad, brilliant, fun and textured.
A perfect blend of everything. Obstacle 1 is one of the best songs EVER, in my opinion. How could I not love this album?
Fantastic New York Sound April 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While my first experience with Interpol was their second album "Antics", I actually prefer the slightly less calculated and ethereal sound of Turn on the Bright lights. It sounds layered and rich, and bass heavy, which I love. It's one of those albums that you don't have to skip tracks when listening to. There are no fillers, and every song has a hook of some kind that keeps it interesting. Obstacle 1 is my favorite track, thanks to it's tempo changes and overall experimental sound. I think they're a great representation of their genre and style, and this is coming from a person who listens to Tool and Rage against the Machine. It's a must buy, enjoy it.
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