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VINYL/CD

OUR LOVE TO ADMIRE is at once unmistakably INTERPOL and undeniably new. The witty and perverse "No I In Threesome" is an upbeat ode to shaking up a staid relationship, propelled by Carlos D's peerless bass melody, while the tenderly observant "Pace Is the Trick" proves that the band are still the masters of the dramatic - check the painful pause right before the sinfully satisfying return of Sam's thundering drums and Daniel's ringing lead guitar. The band's impressively seductive evolution is obvious all over the record, but never more so than on tracks like "Mammoth," "Who Do You Think" and on the album's lyrical centerpiece, the ghostly "Rest My Chemistry.". Interpol is back, every bit as good as before but charged with a new spirit, a new direction, a new label and, most of all, a new confidence.