Determination - Admiral Tibet

Advantages: Great melodic songs mixing with a few higher tempo numbers
Disadvantages: repetitive towards end of album

...Interpol follow up there antics album with our love to admire and it is every bit as cool as its predercessor. The album kicks of with the haunting melodic sounds of "pioneer to the falls" with a looping drum beat. this swiftly followed by a song about the dark thoughts of man to try and get his woman into a threesome with oppropriately named "no i in threesome". The middle section of the album as somemore tempo with single releases of "Heinrich Maneuver" with some riping jerky riffs on guitar and "mammoth" with its looping beat and rythm. Interpols trademark huanting soungs and vocals remain consistant throught the album no more so in than in the penultimate track "the lighthouse". The whole sounds just bring alive the thoughts of loney lighthouse in the fog on a grey evening. There is the slight sense they run out of original... Read review

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Advantages: The powerful, heartfelt sounds of 'Rest My Chemistry' and 'Mammouth'
Disadvantages: 'Heinrich Maneuver' fails to successfully represent the masterpiece that is 'Our Love To Admire'

...'Our Love To Admire', Interpol's highly awaited third album progresses from the subdued, melancholic tones of 'Turn on the Bright Lights' to a noticeably mainstream-pleasing array of catchy anthems and alluring melodies. This is a band who have matured and developed their sound over the years unlike so many who have regurgitated the same monotonous material over time and time again. Tracks such as 'The Heinrich Maneuver' and 'All Fired Up' clearly reveal that the band want to attract a new audience with the fast pace and pounding guitars whilst the atmospheric 'Pioneer to the Falls' reassures hardcore fans that the ghostly harmonies and evocative tensions are still present. The stand out track on the album has to be the magnificent 'Rest My Chemistry' which begins with an eerie synth intro and quickly explodes into slow, melodic... Read review

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Advantages: Fantastic main theme, lyrical throughout, Yo-Yo Ma, a real pleasure
Disadvantages: For the most part will not satisfy fans of noisy music

...Of the four John Williams scores of 1997 (that also icluded Rosewood, Amistad, and The Lost World), I have always considered Seven Years in Tibet to be the best. Rosewood I never have liked, Amistad had a beautiful theme but was pretty standard for the most part, and the Jurassic Park sequel wallowed in the rhythmic darkness of deep jungles so much that the original film's themes were almost completely absent and the new big theme was criminally underused. Seven Years in Tibet, on the other hand, delivers on almost all the fronts that the three others failed in. Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and starring Brad Pitt, the film tells the true story of the Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, who went to the Himalayans to scale a mountain at the outset of World War II and is subsequently arrested and denied his return to Ausria due... Read review

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