Interpol- Antics

Interpol- AnticsThe title of Interpol's second album, ANTICS, may conjure up images of carefree adventure, but anyone familiar with the New York City band's brooding post punk sound knows that there's nothing lighthearted about their music. Although it's not a radical departure, ANTICS does reveal a broadening of the group's sonic palette. The opening track, "Next Exit," is a slowly building, piano laden anthem, marked by singer Paul Banks's remarkably widened vocal

The album celebrates Leon's immersive experience of creating music in the same East Hollywood room where he lived

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The soulful collaboration between Leon as an artist and the space itself was so encompassing that he chose to name the album after the studio complex

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hard rock songs with clean (and even serene) singing

yet the meanings slippery

Saxophonist Jordan Smart

with even the loudest rockers unveiled at a measured pace that allows plenty of space for solos by Mike McCready

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" with its mariachi-flavored horns

while the Kanye West bragger "Jukebox Joints" ("Man everything basic to Ye Guevara/That means Saint Laurent is my Zara") is both soulful enough to be on the Stones Throw label and strange enough to be on the Yeezus album

and allowing those universes