In a nutshell: don’t expect anything to veer madly away from the template they’ve previously set themselves, but this is still better than The Editors. Although a recent interview with Daniel Kessler had him stating the new album would have “more texture and interesting sounds”, this is certainly not to be taken as a sign they’ve departed from the familiar. Granted, Interpol’s sound has evolved a little, with greater use of keyboards providing a fuller, larger sound, but the album as a whole will be recognisably new only to diehard fans.

With a more textured approach, Interpol have lost some of their capacity to build from a lone guitar, or the isolated vocal. Everything seems smothered in backing atmospherics, and with it the urgency and sense of escalation is lost. A bigger sound, ironically, renders the songs less epic.

However, these changes are incremental, with Our Love To Admire far closer to Antics than Antics was to Turn On The Bright Lights. Ultimately, they still sound like Interpol. A lot like Interpol, in fact. We are at no risk of them showing off their love of crunk just yet.

Richard Davie