Of all the buzz bands to emerge from early 00s New York, Interpol have been one of the most distinctive and enduring – and as they prepare to tour their biggest hit album Antics for its 20th anniversary, they will answer your questions.
Sharp-suited and sunglasses-clad, yet with a hint of bleary torpor, their style set them apart, as did their music: gothic, poetic, taut yet limber, they conjured a world of fraught romance and nocturnal intrigue. Their 2002 debut album Turn on the Bright Lights chimed with the melancholy and nervousness of post-9/11 New York (including one of the city’s great civic anthems, NYC) and was followed by Antics, a landmark album whose indie-disco beer-flingers were smarter and more dramatic than those of their peers.
