New York band Interpol emerged in 2002 to differing reactions from the indie community - many who were excited by their first released material, and some who thought they sounded too similar to Joy Division. By the time their debut album Turn On The Bright Lights was released later that same year, the band had refined their sound making it more distinctive. The album was widely praised by music critics, many of whom considered it among the best released in that year. Indeed, it is still considered to be among the best records of the decade so far.
Second album Antics, released in 2004, was far more commercially successful, and received more warm reviews, though some critics did not consider it as good as ...Bright Lights. While their first album was dark and broody, Antics was brighter and had bigger choruses. It spawned three Top 40 singles, and several of its tracks were borrowed for TV programmes and adverts.
In 2006, the band left Matador Records to join a major label - Capitol. Their first album for Capitol was released in 2007: Our Love To Admire. With a fuller sound (including keyboards for the first time), it was greeted with mostly positive reviews, though less so than for their previous two records.
