Album Reviews

Interpol

``Our Love to Admire''

EMI

This is the much-anticipated follow-up album from Interpol, the New York-based indie rock band that received critical acclaim with their two previous albums.

The voice of singer Paul Banks may sound similar to that of Joy Division's Ian Curtis, but Interpol strikes on quite a different sonic path with the '80s UK band. Not that they lack the trademark sentiments of gloom and depression. While mid-tempo groovy numbers such as the first single-cut ``The Heinrich Maneuver'' easily get inside one's head, it's slower numbers such as the opening number ``Pioneer to the Falls'' and ending ``The Lighthouse'' that truly shine with their atmospheric darkness.

- Seo Dong-shin