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.
They had a rather unhappy jump to a major label for their third LP Our Love to Admire before returning to their indie home Matador, which has released four more excellent albums with them, each one deepening their songcraft a little more. Along the way there have been side projects – for instance, forays into hip-hop by frontman Paul Banks including an entire album with Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA – but Interpol have stayed the course and are as big as ever: an April gig in Mexico City attracted 160,000 fans.
The Antics tour reaches the UK in November with six dates around the country, and to mark that and the album’s 20th anniversary, Banks and guitarist Daniel Kessler will answer your questions on Tuesday 23 July. Post them in the comments below and their answers will be published in the Guardian’s Film & Music section on Friday 26 July as well as online.
