Post rock and slightly seasoned

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Interpol releases their second album today. I'll try to skip the surly bonds of work and go buy it today, along with a few other CD's I've been pining for. Pitchfork couldn't decide what to think of the album, despite giving it an 8.5 rating. Antics is, according to the perpetually disdainful boys and girls at Pitchfork, not a traditional sophomore release like they consider Turn on the Bright Lights to inexplicably be. It's a departure from their album format to a more single-friendly outlook, but what it appears that Pitchfork is trying to say is that the production values are just better - more space between the heavy rythmn section and piercing guitars and the vocals, which were obscured in their first release. I'll let you know what it actually sounds like in the next week.

More interesting is the fact that Interpol has taken the original step of opening art spaces in New York, LA, and London, where they are selling 7" box sets and singles for the album, along with screen printed original band images. Paris gets it's own Interpol shrine later in the year. Expect lots of skinny ties and dark suits, paired with hair swept to one side.

I'm also getting the following titles:
The Future Soundtrack for America
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt 2
Murder by Death - Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them
Rogue Wave - Out of the Shadow