Imagine this:
You show a friend a picture you stumbled across that you can't stop looking at. A picture of a place that looks unlike anything you've ever seen. After a few seconds of looking at it, your friend excitedly tells you about the wondrous place, because he goes there all the time. A place with magnificent trees and wild animals who let you pet them and run around with them. Where the weather is authentic, but manipulatable. A fascinating wanderlust actualized. So naturally you let him take you. And at first glance you can see what the picture hinted at. So you go back a few times. And a few more times. Pretty soon you're going back a few times a day without really realizing how attached you have become. After a few weeks you start to look more closely at the bright leaves, build a sort of relationship with the animals, and quench your thirst with water from rivers and springs you never thought could exist. Eventually this utopia becomes the gateway to a world of paradises. Worlds different in almost every way from the others, all showing you totally new wildlife and sunsets. So you can't but leave that boring, ordinary, dull and mundane world you used to tread around in your steel-toe boots behind now, and instead take up residence in a place where the only pair of shoes you'll ever need were the ones given to you on your 0th birthday. No passport or visa necessary.
Interpol is releasing their 3rd full length album "Our Love To Admire" on the 10th of June. Their first single "The Heinrich Maneuver" has just started to weave its way through the web waves, offering up a Polaroid of the expansion project underway to the wonderland they invited me into 4 years ago. "Turn On The Bright Lights" was, and still is, the most moving album I've ever laid ears on. The follow up "Antics" provided the Sun to TOTBL's Moon, and from there my itunes was never starved again. I filled her appetite with meals and morsels from cooks with the same kind of Iron Chef talent as Interpol's. Now finally, after 3 years of waiting, the New Yorkinites have a new dish ready, and a festival of people are licking their chops.
If you're not familiar with this band, you should familiarize yourself. I'm through being a drill sergeant about it. I used to think it was my duty to get people on board these trains I've traveled on, but after bunking with the few people who actually are seeking this form of migration, and having discussions and sharing emotions with them, I'd rather keep the corridors empty sanz true travelers.
If you have a few moments, you should check out the links below. MP3's and vids. Maybe it'll wet your appetite. Paul Banks writes poetry, not lyrics, so if you enjoy interpreting words rather than being told what the meanings are, you'll have fun. Enjoy the ear full folks, it's delicious.
Songs:
The Heinrich Maneuver:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/04-the-heinrich-maneuver-mp3-kkw.html
The Specialist:
http://www.zshare.net/download/05-specialist-m4p.html
NARC:
http://www.zshare.net/download/03-narc-m4p.html
Leif Erikson:
http://www.zshare.net/download/10-leif-erikson-m4a.html
Videos:
Obstacle 1:
Evil:
Lyric Links:
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Interpol/
5 comments:
Thank you for finding uncharted new paths and showing its map to the rest of us. There is nothing like stumbling across the extraordinary and realize that different is refreshing. Unusal could be and is intelligent. It will give you the power to break through new frontiers and experience other dimentions. I too was taken on a tour of this haven and I find myself more and more drawn to further explore all its corners and caverns. I don't always get the lyrics the first time around, I don't think it matters if you "get" it right away. But as time goes by and I listen more and more, it'll make sense to me without even trying. I've grown to love this brand of music and hopefully I'll be able to pass it on to others. Thank you for sharing your insight with us and thank you Nader for introducing me to another dimension of music.
My pleasure. Truth is, with abstract metaphorical lyrics meanings are relative. What one line means to me, could mean something totally different to you, and it usually does. Interpol opened the Pandora's Box for me, what came out of that box since has really changed me as a person, as corny as that might sound. Our generation has poets worthy of acknowledgment, and as an added bonus: guitars as companions to the poetry. Giddy was a school boy and I am him!
Music has the power to paint paintings and sculpt sculptures by making us the designers. And artists who art with the mind-set that our understanding and liking are secondary to their understanding and liking are the true artists in my opinion. Paul Banks, Spencer Krug, Matt Berninger, Dan Bejar, Issac Brock.... Underground-Land Patriots.
GUITARS ARE NOT COMPANIONS TO POETRY!!!!! I hope you succumb to the powers of the evil disease that has overtaken your BROWN body!!!
Just because one only considers "Bar inspired lyrics" as poetry doesn't make it so, your honkie-ness. Are bass lines and drum beats not companions to guitars? Is so, then lyrics(sometimes so sweet they could be considered poetry) can also be friends with these and other instruments.
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