tokyochuchu's Full Review: Antics [Slipcase] by Interpol
On first impressions, Antics is an LP that doesn't fair so well. Everything seems like a mire of dark and brooding guitar riffs. However, first impressions can be wrong, and thankfully they are in this case. Antics is a grower of the best kind, an LP that struggles to break out but finally blossoms into something deep, dark, rewarding and downright addictive. An album for those introspective winter evenings, and an LP for those headphone using, pretending to be in the band whilst bouncing round the room thrash sessions alike. There are many feathers to Antics' bow such as the brilliant raw production that wrenches both energy and melancholic tinges from the songs, but the greatest assets are the complicated, obtuse lyrics that are genuinely interesting to those of more learned leanings. Poetic in the extreme, you really have to listen implicitly to extract their meanings, and this LP is all the better for it. Then of course, there is Paul Banks' Ian Curtis like voice, deep and full of unknown sorrow and addictive in it's otherworldly charm. An absolute masterpiece of the highest order.
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