It’s nothing but a processed guitar riff, its descending one-chord pattern bouncing two strings off one another using a delay, nearly suspended in mid-air. The song unfurls slowly, like a giant flag in the wind, majestic and assured. It’s “Untitled,” the first track on the debut album from New York City’s Interpol, 2002’s Turn On The Bright Lights. A new sound, like a dark wave rolling silently ashore, sweeping aside the dross that lingered there before. It’s the most mesmerizing 3:57 in indie rock and maybe one of the greatest album openers of all time, a monster monogram of a track that announces, with full clarity of purpose and voice, a band you’ve never heard before playing from the very tips of its toes. The making of Interpol’s Turn On The Bright Lights
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