INTERPOL • "Antics 20th Anniversary Tour 2024" • Live in Leipzig! 🎸

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Support: dust

To mark the 20th anniversary of "Antics", Interpol are announcing new dates in Germany. In October 2024, the New York indie rock band will perform their second album in its entirety as well as a few other songs on four evenings.

Interpol shoulder the heavy cross of their second album with surprising ease. Antics is a worthy successor to the justifiably highly acclaimed debut Turn On The Bright Lights, the common thread of which is picked up again and the influences from the late seventies and early eighties can once again be clearly heard. But please don't start shouting retro rock and new wave revival again, because what can the four studious guys from the eternally bubbling New York melting pot do for the fact that they were still in diapers when punk and wave were raging back then? Like Radio 4 or The Faint, Interpol have internalized the spirit of that time and continue its sound with other means. Interpol sound very English again when they play their ten dark songs - heavily infected by The Sound, Joy Division or Chameleons. The men, always elegantly dressed like The Godfathers of old, know how to develop melodies, slow down the tempo ("A Time To Be So Small", "Next Exit") or pick it up ("Evil") and elicit chords from the guitars that have not been heard for a long time. The highlight of the album is perhaps "Slow Hands" with fast, dry riffs that even Franz Ferdinand couldn't have managed better. An album that is one of the highlights of 2004, a year not exactly lacking in highlights thanks to Radio 4, Franz Ferdinand, Wilco, Modest Mouse or Liars.