Former bassist Carlos D: “‘Antics’ is the best Interpol record”

nme.com:

Interpol gear up to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their seminal second album ‘Antics’, here’s a reminder of what former bassist Carlos D [Dengler] made of the record.An interview from 2017 has resurfaced with the bassist appearing on the podcast Talk Music Talk with boice, where he spoke about his thoughts on ‘Antics’. ‘Antics’, Interpol’s sophomore record’, was originally released in 2004.

You can listen to the excerpt from around 24 minutes and 30 seconds down below.Speaking with host Boice-Tyrrell Allen, Dengler claimed that “I believe that Antics is actually the best Interpol record.” He added that he thought what people loved about their debut ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ was how “raw and visceral” it was, continuing: “it’s your classic first album from a band, it’ll never be repeated again, you don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, you’re on a shoestring budget and you’re like, ‘ah this part needs to go down’ – it’s very punk in that sense.”However, Dengler clarified he had “some issues with the way that album sounds,” including “a kind of pacing that it has that in my opinion is structurally problematic.” The bassist did concede that “there is an excitement, there’s a newness there,” saying he could “completely” understand why fans liked their debut.Dengler went on to compare ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ to ‘Antics’, describing ‘Bright Lights’ as “a greatest hits of the band’s demo years, that’s essentially what a first album should be,” giving ‘PDA’ as an example: “PDA was the first song that Daniel and I, when I first met him [at] our very first session together, wrote at Funkadelic Studios in 1997.