Interpol return with the first song from their forthcoming, as yet unannounced fourth album.
Interpol - 'Lights'
Recorded at the end of last year in NYC's Electric Lady studio, the band have claimed a return to the "reverb" sound of their debut
Turn On The Bright Lights. Which was released in....2002. Man, has it already been eight years?
Drummer Sam Fogarino claimed in a recent interview with Paste that "That big wash of reverb? It's back." Which is cool and all but that wasn't really the reason the bands second and third efforts sounded short of the mark. It's that they buried the remarkable interplay of the rhythm section that makes
Turn On The Bright Lights so mesmerising. In any case, after Fogarino's claims, singer Paul Banks chirped up to say that the album would
not sound like the bands debut and instead will have more "classical" elements to it.
'Lights' seems to fall within both mentions. Reverby indeed, and with a cinematic rise and fall that befits Banks claim. It also conjures the spectre of Pink Floyd's Roger Waters' solo work, as well as
Turn On The Bright Lights, if only because it sounds so...
bleak. This, is a good thing.
The album is due out mid-year.