It's the way in which the elements of the track click into place with a Swiss watchmaker's precision and artistry that really hits home.
The outcome is akin to an artistic explosion. Instead of falling back on the repetitive thrumming and jangling of their previous recordings, they’ve crowded Our Love to Admire with unexpected rhythmic feints (”All Fired Up”) and Arcade Fire-like orchestrations (”Pioneer to the Falls”) that stymie any attempt at casual listening.
As with so many classic albums, it’s apparent from Love’s first notes that something transcendent and fiercely magical is about to unfold.
Terrible, brooding and magnificent, Our Love to Admire sees NYC's most nocturnal sons sitting pretty at the top of the food chain, looking every inch the predatory creatures that adorn the album's sleeve.
On the whole, Our Love To Admire delivers exactly what's promised, which for fans will be exactly enough.
Our Love To Admire isn't going to change many minds--those who already liked the band will find plenty to please, and vice versa.
Our Love to Admire’s lesser tracks seem to have placed a greater emphasis on texture than melody or even rhythm, which is arguably the band’s most potent weapon. As a whole, though, Sam Fogarino will be satisfied.
Falling somewhere between the full-on gloom of their debut and the peppier follow-up, Antics, this new disc may not be their Sgt. Pepper, but it’s still filled with morbidly catchy treats.
There are just enough interesting songs on Our Love to Admire to suggest that they can't be written off entirely just yet.
Overall, Our Love to Admire is definitely a decent album and I would recommend it, especially to fans of older material. However, if this would be your first experience with Interpol I would suggest looking at another album. Particularly Turn On the Bright Lights.
Given the climate, that probably won't bother the browsers in Tesco: glossy, professional, and strangely hollow, Our Love to Admire still sounds like a hit.
A few more similarly unexpected turns would have been welcome. But Admire feels oddly reined in, a transitional record by a band not yet willing to completely let go of the past.
Admire finds the band's balance shifting significantly; the rhythm players often seem more like glorified session men than integral components of a sleek post-punk machine.
Even the best songs of Our Love To Admire can’t reach the boggling complexity and honesty of most anything from Turn On The Bright Lights.
Our Love to Admire is the perfect soundtrack for an eighth grade dance, but for actual adults who know better, it’s best to avoid this mess.
Our Love To Admire isn’t even a contractual obligation to push off without care. But boy does it sound like one; a band phoning it in, out of steam, and running on a few lingering fumes and smoldering coals.
while its not as atmospheric or ambitious as turn on the bright lights or even antics, our love to admire is still a very well produced album filled with great songs, especially in the first half :)
Maybe it's just weird to me, but all of their album covers have been pretty simple up until this point, where you have animals killing each other. Just a bitttt weird but alright lol
This is another great album. The songwriting is on point, the production is still lush, and the lyrical themes of love are still interesting to me. I love some of the details that are added to this project as well, with the synths playing a little bit of a bigger roll. Pioneer To The Falls is also one of my ... read more
This is my favorite Interpol record. The best singles they have put out are here, the tracklist is consistent and the production is BIG and atmospheric. Love this record
I don't know why but this was my favorite album of interpol but overtime my rating goes down each week.
I will admit beforehand that my rating/review on this album is more than a little biased because I'm VERY emotionally attached to it. It helped me get through a tough breakup with someone I loved to death, and it continues to comfort me deeply to this day.
Our Love to Admire is easily Interpol's best record after TOTBL. It's innovative, high-energy, and just great to listen to. I've listened to The Heinrich Maneuver more times than any other song in probably the last 6 months. I feel like ... read more
Alright, this time around, this feels like a new album. My main problem with their last record was that it felt like a Turn On The Bright Lights b-sides collection of songs, but they have finally done something new on this one. Turn On The Bright Lights created a dark and grim atmosphere that surrounded the whole album. They’ve done it again on this album, but this time the atmosphere feels a lot more mysterious and suspenseful that creates a whole new texture.
Interpol has this thing ... read more
1 | Pioneer To the Falls 5:42 | 94 |
2 | No I In Threesome 3:51 | 91 |
3 | The Scale 3:25 | 82 |
4 | The Heinrich Maneuver 3:28 | 87 |
5 | Mammoth 4:13 | 82 |
6 | Pace Is the Trick 4:37 | 87 |
7 | All Fired Up 3:35 | 78 |
8 | Rest My Chemistry 5:01 | 95 |
9 | Who Do You Think 3:13 | 78 |
10 | Wrecking Ball 4:33 | 74 |
11 | The Lighthouse 5:24 | 82 |
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#11 | / | musicOMH |
#15 | / | Q Magazine |
#21 | / | Gigwise |
#38 | / | Treble |
#41 | / | No Ripcord |
#42 | / | Consequence of Sound |
#43 | / | MOJO |
#49 | / | NME |