I saw Interpol with a coworker the other week and it was everything I expected. They were good, really good. Maybe too good? They didn't miss a note and the sound was fantastic. Those guys can write some interesting songs. I notice that as they move through their career, their songs take on a more dynamic quality - more stops/starts, breakdowns, melodic layerings, vocal solos, and drum riffs that depart from the usual rock beats.

The only weird thing was that they hardly moved during the show, and neither did the people in the audience. I realize an Interpol show isn't exactly a punk show, but it does qualify as rock, and rock music generally makes people move. I suppose Interpol fans are too cool for school to rock out at a live show. But when Interpol played their harder songs and the only "rocking out" I saw consisted of some head-bobbing, I starter to wonder if Interpol fans might need to loosen up a little. Regardless, it was a good show.

Oh, and as for their opener, The Liars, I hesitate to call them an "opener." I also hesitate to call them a "band." Bloc Party once sarcastically described their band in the third-person by saying, "They do everything that's required to conform to the currently received ideas of what a band is: ostensibly to play instruments at the same time, but also have a title for the work created." While this is funny for Bloc Party, it is not funny for The Liars, because The Liars did not really play their instruments at the same time. At least the melodies did not seem to go together at the same time. Maybe they did in some alternate universe. I'm actually not sure there were melodies. I do know that air molecules were moving in wave formation, because I heard their terrible noise and felt it in my chest. Other than that, I was not able to discern any patterns, ideas, or musical structures.

In other news, I downloaded the new Radiohead album. I gave them $10, or $1 per song. I think that's fair. It's what iTunes would have charged. Did anyone else out there buy it?