interpol soundtrack boys emotional breakdown.

our love to admire leaked on friday, coming at the most ridiculously perfect time possible. after a pretty rubbish couple of weeks things were looking on the up and as a result of this i had a 24 hour journey that would hopefully reinforce this, so interpol would be the perfect soundtrack. i decided to save the album for the second portion of the journey, the return home, knowing that this would be the most difficult section of my journey. jeez i sound melodramatic.so yeah, the album. the record opens with on the most magnificant opening track iv heard in a long, long time, pioneer to the falls. its so subtly epic and reverse-bombast (bombast being one of the major negative points thrown at interpol quite often) that it cant fail to reassure that your in for a great record over the next 47 minutes. theres a semi-chord change around three minutes into the song, lyrically at least, with the line "i know you try, you fly straight into my heart", and is followed by the most beautiful guitar section that it becomes incredibly emotional, harking back to interpol's early days. not that 'our love to admire' loses any of the anthemetic power of 'antics', in all honesty it seems like a good combination of 'turn on the bright lights' balladeering beauty and the epic, danceability of 'antics'. album closer 'lighthouse' is perhaps the most joyfully sorrowful song the band have ever produced, and contains ghostlike backing vocals, something strange to hear in an interpol song, considering paul banks' distinctive vocals are the bands most telling feature.