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The long awaited new Interpol album Our Love to Admire finally arrived just over a week ago and I must say I really dig it. While these guys have never quite been able to match their first album Turn on the Bright Lights [2002], Admire has a number of great songs that get better with each listen.

My favorite song of the moment has to “Wrecking Ball” with it’s familiar guitar drone intro, sharp atmospheric rhythms and poignant lyrics: “Nobody warned you / Nobody told you / to make up your mind”. The message is up to the listener’s interpretation and for me it pertains to the difficulties of post-collegiate career path and expectations that come with it: relationships, love, responsibility and success.

New to this album is the addition of keyboards and what could be considered orchestration, both conventions that lend themselves well to the Interpol sound – you really can’t go on forever with simply two guitars, bass and drums and the additions were well executed. While Paul Banks has opened his singing approach somewhat from previous efforts, he hasn’t turned his back on his trademark downcast delivery (a style that still draws comparisons to Ian Curtis and Joy Division).

If “Wrecking Ball” doesn’t do it for you, I also recommend the second track “No I in Threesome” as well.

I failed to make it to the Pitchfork Music Festival due to a rather bad case of the flu. I was really looking forward to seeing Iron & Wine, Cat Power and Menomena among others. Oh well, there’s always Lollapalooza (if I can come up with the money).

More importantly, The National stopped by Daytrotter last week and recorded four songs you can check out on the Daytrotter web site. They actually performed a cool version of the Psychedelic Furs 80’s hit ‘Pretty in Pink’ which you can download here.

That’s it for now… Oh, I should probably mention I pulled this photo from The National’s website.

It’s been a while, I know.  I’ve been out of town a bunch lately and I haven’t had a camera on me.  I managed to snap this exemplary photo of Reisch in a Limo Bus somewhere in Los Angeles using Shark’s camera.  More to come, I’m still waiting on photos…