#20 - Interpol - Untitled
Perhaps far too young to make statements like this as it’s purely retrospective, but there must not have been a more badass band back in 2002. Posting this has made me relisten to Turn On The Bright Lights and while it’s a record perhaps lacking in inventiveness or originality, it still sounds so completely fresh and vital, I can’t think of an “indie” record of the ilk released this year (or the past few for that matter) with nearly that much quality.
I actually think that going 100% on the music contained within, Antics is barely behind the debut as a record; but as a band it’s so impossible to separate image and aesthetic from the music produced, it worked to their advantage in 2002, but in 2004, and in a far greater extent 2010, the mystique has vanished.
Very hard to choose between this and Not Even Jail and The Specialist.
