![]() ![]() To boot, this was clearly not the band's most "on" performance: the Turn on the Bright Lights tracks ("PDA", "Leif Erikson" and "Obstacle 1") are sober and flat, and impossibly, "Specialist"- an excellent track they've strategically made something of a "rarity"- sounds even more exhausted than its dub-like indie jangle. By now a widely available bootleg (with several additional tracks not included on this EP), their Maison de la Radio Black Session evidences a frequent complaint leveled against these Royal Tenenbaum goths: the sound of their songs in a live setting varies little from how they appear on record. The remaining four cuts are culled from the band's Augappearance on The Black Sessions, a popular in-studio concert broadcast on France's Inter radio, aired during Bernard Lenoir's C'est Lenoir program. One could argue that isn't a problem, since Interpol will in all likelihood tone down their insecure, overeager fashion sense and tidily fall into that chic, detached role at some point, but the rest of the EP is pure ballast. Lacking the album's caviar-rich production and Greg Calbi's always impeccable mastering, the song loses most of its whooshing sweep in fact, it begins to sound suspiciously like something by Luna circa Penthouse. Next comes the demo version of "NYC" already available on the Yes New York compilation. Since the version included here is the same one found on the LP, it makes little sense to discuss it in the context of this EP, although I can't help but note that it does feature the all-time widest gamut of Banks's lyrical skills: going from the genuinely great line, "This isn't you yet/ What you thought was such a conquest," to the lazy, automatic scripture, "You're hair is so pretty and red/ Baby, baby you're really the best," is one of the most painful juxtapositions in quality in the band's entire catalog (though "Obstacle 1"'s "Her stories are boring and stuff/ She's always calling my bluff" still marks the nadir). ![]() Opening the disc is "Say Hello to the Angels", arguably one of the weakest numbers on the band's 2002 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights it's the only one that sounds something like The Strokes, and thus makes for the record's most predictable single. ![]()
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