Labels: Parlophone
Review by: Andy Malcolm
When will this obsession with early 80’s post punk end? I don’t even listen to
the radio but I somehow know that this genre is over-saturated. The Departure must be the
latest bunch of dull Englishmen to cobble together a release that sounds like it is a cover version of that era but with modern production. From the guitar sound and the vocals, to their ridiculously contrived image in the press photo on their website, this unashamedly apes a bunch of bands that my brain is unable to seperate from each other. This song is highly competent, I didn’t hate it, and I made it all the way to the end without murder, but it just means absolutely nothing to me.
Interpol – you bastard motherfuckers! Look what you have wrought upon us!