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	Interpol: Turn On The Bright Lights (2002): Reviews
		For such a dark and brooding record, Turn on the Bright Lights is also unexpectedly thrilling, coasting on jagged minor-chord guitar melodies and huge emotional swells with a ton of high points along the way.
		Plainly stated, Turn on the Bright Lights is the album modern followers of post-punk have been waiting for.
		Bright Lights isn't a trudging soundtrack to depression; it's laced with upbeat, albeit bittersweet, songwriting.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/interpol/turnonthebrightlights (997 words)

	Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Turn On the Bright Lights is an absolute must for anyone who missed Echo and The Bunnymen, the Furs or Joy Division the first time round.
		Their debut album, Turn On The Bright Lights, is an exhilarating ride through dank subway cars, couches to crash on, despair, and isolation.
		Turn on the Bright Lights begins with the shivering "Untitled", which opens with a pulsing, solitary guitar filtered through echoing effects that carry on for over half a minute.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fsgroen/Albums-I/Interpol_TurnOnTheBrightLights.htm (2861 words)

	Turn on the Bright Lights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Turn on the Bright Lights was New York City rock band Interpol's first full-length album.
		It was released in 2002 on Matador Records to a great deal of critical acclaim and sold exceptionally well for an indie release; it has sold 438,000 copies so far.
		Musically, many have pointed out the similarities between Turn on the Bright Lights and the bands Joy Division and The Chameleons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Turn_on_the_Bright_Lights (215 words)

	Amazon.ca: Turn On The Bright Lights: Music: Interpol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The early '80s subgothic, postpunk are clearly Interpol's obsession on Turn On the Bright Lights.
		Though stylishly clad in suits and ties and unmistakably a New York band, their music is a literate, atmospheric, always-moody, sometimes-trashy postpunk often recalling the Psychedelic Furs, particularly with "PDA," "Obstacle 2," "Roland," and "Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down." And this is definitely a good thing.
		Fortunately, those problems I have with "Bright Lights" have been addressed on "Antics", and my enthusiasm for that album is such that I think I'm finally able to see some of the better aspects of this one.
	www.amazon.ca /Turn-Bright-Lights-Interpol/dp/B00006BTCA (1407 words)

	[fmSound] Reviews - Interpol "Turn on the Bright Lights"
		But whereas fellow New Yorkers such as the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs tend to draw on the shambolic, noisy and confrontational aspects of said music, the introverts of Interpol are more naturally drawn to its stark, austere, and downright icy tones and arrangements.
		Turn on the Bright Lights recalls a time when bands made liberal use of understated, chiming guitars, prominent bass lines and a predilection for all things dark.
		Interpol seem to have done the bands in their record collections justice by paying them not only the sincerest form of flattery but by also adding their own unique and incontrovertible spin along the way.
	www.fmsound.net /IndieScene/Archives/2002/Interpol/Interpol.html (437 words)

	InternetEd Reviews: Interpol- Turn On The Bright Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In fact, Turn On The Bright Lights sounds like a more varied album by The Strokes, though with Ian Curtis of Joy Division as the singer.
		Another great feature of Turn On The Bright Lights is the abundance of catchy and well-written music, which makes for a disc that is likable from start to finish.
		Turn On The Bright Lights begins with “Untitled,” a dream-like song with soaring guitar melodies.
	www.interneted.com /Reviewpages/interpoleturnonbright.htm (300 words)

	Splendid Magazine reviews Interpol: Turn On the Bright Lights
		He's in better shape on "PDA", singing hopefully over the song's rhythmic layered guitars and reveling in the major-key chorus, although the music counters with its own lingering cynicism; upbeat finish aside, it's a song as uncertain as the romance of former enemies.
		And if Banks ever decides to hang himself -- unlikely, given the fact that Bright Lights' sharpened notes owe more to recording quality than youthful desperation -- "Hands Away" offers ample evidence that his bandmates will be able to muster a credible synth-pop outfit in his memory.
		It's easy to laud the band as heirs to the post-punk throne, especially if you're tired of sound-alike garage bands, but there's little here that suggests Interpol has a game-plan for moving beyond the scope of their influences.
	www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=3238396815392236 (740 words)

	Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights - Review
		It was just a couple months ago now that Matador gave Interpol the grand treatment with a specially-priced and very nicely-designed self-titled EP meant to introduce the band to the world.
		While I was moderately impressed with the EP, one of the things that simply frustrated me (like many EPs, which is actually sort of their goal) was the short length.
		It's easy to get a quick taste of a group in 15 minutes, but obviously harder to figure out their complete sound, which Turn On The Bright Lights expands on and spreads its wings nicely.
	www.almostcool.org /mr/i/i12mu.html (446 words)

	INTERPOL - TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (LP) - Musicdirect
		While most young bands are content to rhyme "make it" with "fake it," Interpol pens melodramatic tales of tortured and tortuous urban relationships that are truly refreshing.
		Like their peers the Strokes, they're bright, sophisticated, and meticulous enough to build stirring soundscapes.
		Turn On the Bright Lights is a must for anyone who missed Echo and the Bunnymen, the Furs, and Joy Division the first time around.
	www.musicdirect.com /products/detail.asp?sku=LDI545 (196 words)

	Interpol- Turn On the Bright Lights @ Blogcritics.org
		That full-length, "Turn on the Bright Lights," arrived last month and it lives up to every bit of the hype.
		Turn on the Bright Lights hasn't left the stereo since it's purchase.
		Turn on the bright lights is a great disc itself.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/03/020837.php (1786 words)

	Turn On The Bright Lights, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic
		And yet for all its drama, Turn On bears the comfort of the familiar, echoing early '80s English bands like Joy Division, the Smiths and Echo and the Bunnymen — bands who also happened to hail from troubled northern towns.
		It's a city album — every immaculate surface of the recording is spit-shined with carefully calibrated reverb redolent of skyscraper lobbies and urban canyons.
		Declaring "Subway is a porno," "NYC" nails the love/hate relationship New Yorkers have with their city; the song is the very soul of urban sophistication.
	www.emusic.com /album/10705/10705525.html (444 words)

	Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
		This time it's the turn of New York four-piece Interpol to wear their fl hearts on their sleeve.
		Their vision is mapped clearly from the start; 'Untitled' begins proceedings with a ringing guitar and bass procession set to an echo-laden production that Martin Hannett would be proud of.
		Even The Chameleons are referenced on 'Stella Was A Diver And She Was Always Down' and 'Hands Away' proving that their chiming guitar trademark is still respected.
	www.leonardslair.co.uk /interpol.htm (236 words)

	Matador Records \| Interpol
		Yet since Interpol, the band, swept up listeners with their 2002 Matador debut 'Turn On The Bright Lights,' the moniker has gained new associations as well.
		Following the completion of their first full-scale US and European tours in support of one of 2002's hottest albums,'Turn On The Bright Lights', Interpol have confirmed 3 Christmas shows back home in NYC.
		"Turn On The Bright Lights" is out now on CD and LP and more than a few of you seem to agree with us that this is the debut album of 2002.
	www.matadorrecords.com /interpol (4991 words)

	Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights CD review on AudioRevolution.com
		Even the title of their album, Turn On The Bright Lights, indicates that they are ready for the big time.
		Much of the album has a driving, unrelenting style that makes you want to keep turning up the volume.
		A lot is going on in each track, but it is mixed in a way that does not draw particular attention to any one instrument or the vocals, but instead blends it all together in an aggressive way that is like a pleasant jackhammer in your ears.
	www.avrev.com /music/revs/interpol.shtml (521 words)

	Crazewire: Interpol > Album Reviews > Turn On the Bright Lights
		Normal people would feel embarrassed at having been seen in such a vulnerable position, but I just felt pity that he had not seen the light this summer as I had, lacking the realization that Turn On the Bright Lights is worth any mortification.
		Often I would plead, in unison with the lead singer Paul Banks, for someone (anyone) to “wake up to me now/ turn on the bright lights,” a statement so simple yet so sincere in its delivery that it cannot help but be effective.
		There are no misses on this album, only different shades of “good”, and in light of this I can only hope that my roommate and anyone else who reads this will not judge me too harshly for my failure at rock-stardom.
	www.crazewire.com /features/2002093010.php (660 words)

	Bridge and Tunnel Club Blog: Turn On The Bright Lights!
		Last night, the city turned the lights back on.
		As an eager crowd jammed the boardwalk, a switch was thrown and the Parachute Jump was bathed in red and purple light, as shivering patterns chased each other across its girders.
		Phyllis Carbo, 70, who rode on the Parachute Jump as a girl, hesitated when asked for her opinion.
	www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com /blog/archives/2006/07/turn_on_the_bri.html (287 words)

	DOA - Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A couple of weeks ago I sang the praises of this band's debut, a three-song EP for Matador.
		Quite frankly, if the songwriting was good enough, this exact formula could probably get them through a couple more albums.
		Turn on the Bright Lights is baritone pop, iced over with perfectly stiff guitars and a cryptic singer.
	www.adequacy.net /review.php?reviewid=1880 (601 words)

	Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - Matador Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights - Matador Records
		I love this recent string of NYC bands and their strong showing.
		s debut CD release, "Turn on the Bright Lights" is such a spectacular first issue that it bears to say here that it borders on classic, 5-star status.
	www.musictap.net /Reviews/InterpolTurnOnTheBrightLights.html (631 words)

	Interpol Turn On The Bright Lights
		Their latest release, Turn on the Bright Lights, swirls mope rock echoes and guitar driven melancholy into an early 80s underground dream that will make fans of old Cure, Joy Division, Velvet Underground and Peter Murphy salivate.
		With a sharp mod look (two of the guys grew up in England and worshipped the Jam) and an attitude to match, songs like "Untitled" and "Obstacle 1" understate emotion yet pull in the listener with a deep, seductive drone.
		Records like Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights are cool for at least two reasons.
	reviews.modernrock.com /1624 (349 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Review :: Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights :: Matador (Page 1)
		The ’80s are known as the period when artifice smothered musical soul like so much lip gloss.
		Turn on the Bright Lights revels in minor keys and clear, wiry bass/guitar tones that bring to mind Wire, New Order or early U2, while lead singer Paul Banks combines the flat delivery of Joy Division’s Ian Curtis with the wounded shakiness of the Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano, or David Byrne at his most sensitive.
		It adds up to a pained and compelling sound that feels like it’s mostly their own.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=53 (194 words)

	Amazon.com: Turn On the Bright Lights: Music: Interpol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Turn On the Bright Lights is a must for anyone who missed Echo & the Bunnymen, the Furs, and Joy Division the first time around.
		Turn on your ears to this great disc!
		On TOTBL the lyrics can be downright ridiculous, not that that is such a horrible thing.
	www.amazon.com /Turn-Bright-Lights-Interpol/dp/B00006BTCA (1249 words)

	Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights - PopMatters Music Review
		Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights - PopMatters Music Review
		It's more than Paul Banks' elegiac vocals, which stir my gut every time I hear them, so much so that I often have to pause songs in the middle to catch my breath and count to 10.
		The gripping "PDA", already a New York jukebox classic, burns with the intelligent rage so characteristic of The Fall; "Say Hello to the Angels" uses a bopping minor guitar chord progression that's reminiscent of the Pixies; "The New" has the bruising emotion of Echo & the Bunnymen.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/i/interpol-turn.shtml (766 words)

	Turn On The Bright Lights - Wal-Mart
		Interpol initially sounds as if they must have been roaming about Manchester as the 1970s screamed to a close, yet they emerged across the ocean in New York City some two decades-plus later.
		Combining the insistent drone of Joy Division with the dreamy melodies of the Chameleons, the fire of Mission of Burma, and an occasional jagged edge a la The Fall, the foursome inconceivably manage to defy anachronism on their debut full-length TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS.
		Just how they do it is indefinable, perhaps it's just a trick of the light, or the life that breathes gloomily, radiantly throughout, but it's undeniable.
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1930047 (697 words)

	Eye Weekly - Music week - 11.10.05
		For most Queen West club regulars, a trip to the east end may as well come with a time-zone change and jet lag.
		So kudos to Britpop party promoters Ukula for inspiring an eastward exodus with their inaugural Bright Lights Festival, which brought a rare dose of rock 'n' roll to the gentrified, gallery/boutique-infested Distillery Historic District.
		Beyond giving west-enders a chance to see how the other half window-shop, the festival delivered a rare appearance by UK faves Elbow, plus the local debuts of Brit blooze-rockers The Duke Spirit and Montreal supergroup Islands.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.10.05/music/musicweek.html (811 words)

	Album Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol - AOL Music
		Songs & Samples: Turn on the Bright Lights
		The biggest names in music, including Mary J. Blige, Katharine McPhee, John Legend and more perform for the kids to benefit the JCPenney Afterschool Fund.
		Everything about the album 'Turn on the Bright Lights' by Interpol including album title, track listings, release dates, guest artists, record label info and user reviews on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/interpol/483380/album/turn-on-the-bright-lights/599635 (307 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Turn on the Bright Lights: Music: Interpol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Amazon.co.uk: Turn on the Bright Lights: Music: Interpol
		'Turn On The Bright Lights' is the debut album from New York post-punk revivalists, Interpol.
		Their sound has been likened by critics to the music of Joy Division and The Strokes.The tracks 'PDA' and 'NYC' are taken from their 2002 self-titled Matador EP.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Turn-Bright-Lights-Interpol/dp/B00006BTCA (1268 words)

	Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights \| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, interviews, ...
		Released nearly a year ago now, if you’re one of those people riding the trends from one hot band to another, you could’ve even moved on by now, as Interpol enjoyed their initial popularity due to the drastic hype they’d received as one of the next “it” bands out of NYC.
		But that’s what’s most refreshing about this debut – the fact that Turn on the Bright Lights ultimately works as a piece which will be viewed apart from its timely hype as a largely overlooked classic of the early 21st Century.
		If you liked Turn on the Bright Lights...
	www.music-critic.com /rock/interpol_brightlights.htm (468 words)

	Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol at Audio Lunchbox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Turn on the Bright Lights by Interpol at Audio Lunchbox
		7: Turn on the Bright Lights - Obstacle 2
		10: Turn on the Bright Lights - Obstacle 1
	audiolunchbox.com /album?a=23855&z= (161 words)

	Bush Closes the Gap Between Freedom and Terror, but there is an Upside
		They won't have to torture me to get a good confession.
		I am a professional writer of fiction, and if they turn the bright lights on yours truly, beans will spill by the bushel, names will be named.
		Everybody who ever done me wrong, I am going to implicate them up to their dewlaps.
	www.commondreams.org /views06/1026-24.htm (768 words)

	UnEarthed.Com : Reviews : Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights - CD Review
		Throughout the album the languid music speaks with as much purpose and articulation as the elusive lyrics, giving Interpol's music a sense of intellect and depth that few bands ever succeed in attaining. Though the tone may be dark, Turn On the Bright Lights is definitely a bright light in an otherwise dreary musical genre.
		For more information on Interpol, visit their website at www.interpolny.com
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	www.unearthed.com /reviews/review_r_0235.shtml (350 words)

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