It’s popular to characterize Interpol’s sophomore album, Antics, as more optimistic than the brooding, textured songs on its 2002 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights.
Guitarist Daniel Kessler, the lead architect of Interpol’s hypnotic rock sound, doesn’t buy it.
“Maybe the songs have more of an upbeat feel, but not more than Bright Lights,” he says, answering questions in a rapid pace by phone before a recent show in upstate New York. “We never said we were a band within certain boundaries, so the second record was an opportunity to expand where we wanted to go.” MORE