Our Love to Admire by Interpol

Our Love to Admire, Interpol's third studio album, came out on July 10, 2007, through Capitol and Parlophone, and it's the one and only time the Manhattan band have made a record for a major label, having walked away from Matador to do it. They produced it themselves with Rich Costey, splitting the sessions between Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village and the Magic Shop.

The chilly essentials are all still there, Carlos Dengler's clipped basslines, Daniel Kessler's interlocking guitars, Sam Fogarino's snare cracking like a whip and Paul Banks crooning in the gloom, but now the songs come dressed in lavish, layered arrangements. That extra ornament split the critics, some of whom missed the lean, stripped-down attack of the early records. "The Heinrich Maneuver" led the way as the first single in May. Banks later called the making of it the worst time the band ever had in the studio, blaming the stress of the major-label machine, and Interpol went back to Matador afterward.

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