Interpol especially is hard to wrap my head around, because as you said, it sounds like the band is completely depressed. I was one of the few who thought that “Our Love To Admire” was a pretty good record, “Rest My Chemistry” and “Pioneer To The Falls” were some of their strongest songs ever. This new record, though … it’s like all the Interpol elements are there, the murky basslines, the clanging, mechanized-feeling guitar riffs, Banks’ disaffected vocals … but it never seems to add up to songs that feel passionate or vital. I don’t want to say they’re going through the motions, because it doesn’t strike me as a lazy album (like, say, almost everything Oasis did after “Morning Glory”), but yeah, the band just seems so miserable that it makes listening to this difficult.