Interpol - Antics
Critic Score
Based on 19 reviews
2004 Ratings: #90 / 458
User Score
2004 Rank: #88
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CRITIC REVIEWS

95
Coke Machine Glow

Though Turn on the Bright Lights was the best album of 2002, I’ll not hesitate to say that, barring some otherworldly competition, Antics looks to be the best album of 2004.

91
SPIN

The album feels confident and spacious where Bright Lights felt claustrophobic.

90
Drowned in Sound

Interpol have produced a soaring, inventive album that, while incorporating the deliciously dark atmosphere of Turn On The Bright Lights, merely uses it as a base to create more ambitious, warmer soundscapes.

85
Pitchfork
Though Interpol couldn't be expected to surpass their previous heights, it's difficult to imagine a savvier or more satisfying second step.
83
Entertainment Weekly

There are enough new wrinkles in the quartet’s tailored suits to keep things from getting too redundant.

80
Q Magazine

Antics is ridiculously good.

80
Uncut

This is cut to perfection: exhilarating, morbid, romantic, cool.

80
The Guardian
Manages to dabble with tension and still emerge with something life-affirming.
80
Rolling Stone

Antics achieves a tunefulness that warms and broadens Interpol's music, and helps them establish an identity distinct from their dolorous influences.

80
Under the Radar
While this is ultimately a more sophisticated record, it's probably a less obvious one, too.
80
NME
An album scored through with a vehement beauty that, with each listen, becomes all the more acute for its unwillingness to shy away from life's bleaker, more painful moments.
80
AllMusic

The truth ... is that they will never make a record as special as the debut. However, following it with one that is merely very good is no crime.

60
Sputnikmusic

The effort is there, that can't be denied, and the instruments are just as good as the debut. But if you want true Interpol, stick with Turn On The Bright Lights.

60
Paste

These songs feel heavy and significant enough—due to dynamic production and hooky choruses—even if we don’t know exactly what they mean.

60
Mojo
Annoyingly, the high marks are all too infrequent.
60
Tiny Mix Tapes
It's basically an album that will attract more fans for the band on a commercial level, but won't do much to retain the older fans who appreciated their darker material.
scorpi
68

We fed 120 minutes of interpol into a song making A.I. and this was the result!

Indicate
70

Bro think he Joy Division.
Fr though this is pretty good not a single bad song on here some are better than others obviously but they all aren't that far apart from each other if I had to pick the worst one I’ll say Next Exit but this is some good shit.

lilchefremy
90

So essentially there is like only one Interpol song, but that's a damn fine song.

bdogmadfresh
90

excellent follow up album

65

It's ok all songs feel the same.

speedmaster
85

it is pretty Great and Evil is such a banger song

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Track List

1Next Exit
3:20
80
2Evil
3:35
92
3Narc
4:07
88
4Take You On a Cruise
4:54
86
5Slow Hands
3:04
88
6Not Even Jail
5:46
86
7Public Pervert
4:40
85
8C'mere
3:11
88
9Length of Love
4:06
79
10A Time to Be So Small
4:50
86
Total Length: 41 minutes

Year End Lists

#9/SPIN
#11/NME
#27/Pitchfork
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