A Fine Mess
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70
Though short, this collection of songs offers something markedly different from the band, and the diversion is more than welcome.
6mo
60
New EP A Fine Mess is the off-cuts from last year's full-length and – perhaps because of its short nature at just five tracks – possibly their best post-hiatus release yet.
6mo
60
What’s disappointing about A Fine Mess is not just that the songs are unremarkable but also that they don’t deviate from the band’s usual approach in any notable way.
6mo
60
A Fine Mess is just that—scattered outtakes from producer Dave Fridmann's (The Flaming Lips) stellar work with the band from the previous year.
6mo
60
While it's a little undercooked compared to the songs that appeared on Marauder, the EP may still please fans wanting more of that album's vibe.
6mo
56
Culled from last year’s Marauder sessions with Dave Fridmann, there’s still a sense that the production actively tries to disrupt what Interpol does well.
6mo
48
Ultimately, A Fine Mess is a subpar offering that sounds like you’d imagine it to: a handful of B-sides with varying degrees of enjoyment, made worse by a myriad of problems.
6mo
Now if this isnt the most appropriately titled record ive ever seen
*boyish chuckling insues*
*boyish chuckling insues*
You remember Inter/pol/, right???
Think they had this one album. Something like "Take Off The Black Tights", or "Learn On The Bill Of Rights"? Something like that. Then they had a successful followup called Attics.
Wow, that was a while ago. You'd think that they'd struggle to be as good now and that's where you're...right. This is awful.
I cringed a little bit with my play on words earlier, but at least I put some fucking effort into it. Holy shit.
Think they had this one album. Something like "Take Off The Black Tights", or "Learn On The Bill Of Rights"? Something like that. Then they had a successful followup called Attics.
Wow, that was a while ago. You'd think that they'd struggle to be as good now and that's where you're...right. This is awful.
I cringed a little bit with my play on words earlier, but at least I put some fucking effort into it. Holy shit.
"A Fine Mess" is basically just some leftovers from "Marauder". The instrumentation is fine and the writing's decent but everything else about these tracks is so rough and so horribly mixed.
Fine Mess: 3.5
No Big Deal: 4.5
Real Life: 6.5
The Weekend: 4
Thrones: 6
Score:
4.9
Meh
Fine Mess: 3.5
No Big Deal: 4.5
Real Life: 6.5
The Weekend: 4
Thrones: 6
Score:
4.9
Meh
I find all the songs on here decent, nothing more, nothing less. There's a lack of unique qualities here but the EP does manage to hold a respectable standard of energy throughout. I liked Marauder more than most seemed to and it looks like the situations the same here. Interpol really need to get the urgency back into their sound though. I want to be inspired and enthralled not slightly enlivened and barely satisfied. Interpol just sound like a discount rip off of...Interpol.
Interpol is Interpol is Interpol is Interpol is Interpol
Best Tracks: The Weekend,Thrones
Worst Track: Real Life
Best Tracks: The Weekend,Thrones
Worst Track: Real Life
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Track List
- Fine Mess
- No Big Deal
- Real Life
- The Weekend
- Thrones
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Added on: March 28, 2019
