Interpol @ the Manchester Albert Hall (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever)
Interpol performed live on Later…With Jools Holland yesterday as they aired the lead single from their recently released Marauder album.
The Rover introduced Interpol’s sixth studio LP back in June; “You should all know The Rover by now, built around a chiming riff it’s frenetic, vital and a perfect pop song,” Live4ever’s subsequent album review declared.
“It builds, but in a subtle way, little details being added as the song progresses; more drive to the rhythm guitar on the second verse, the ‘uhs’ before the second and preceding choruses, the drum fills becoming busier and lastly the pace ever so slightly quickening for the final chorus. For a band perennially associated with darkness, to have released the song of the summer is quite a feat.”
“Complications has a fuller sound than normal, the chorus rolling around this seesaw of a song with noticeably fluctuating melody and bass, meanwhile Flight Of Fancy has next single written all over it. The chorus is a little more optimistic than its surrounding and the outro is cut criminally short – one imagines it was the unfortunate victim of some serious editing.”
