Album Review

The Corrections – Barcode

• 21st Apr 2008

This is an excellent song. Textured, funky and propulsive guitars move the tune along as a very competent set of vocals shade in the top end with assured confidence. Name-checking Radiohead and Arcade Fire amongst others, this is harder-edged and more art-rock than early Radiohead and not as limber or experimental as Arcade Fire. However, its regimented beat and addictive, fist pumping temp are perfect for indie club dancing.

This is guitar music in a self-aware, ironically detached mode; but thankfully they’ve remembered the key trick – the one that Interpol have mastered time and time again. This trick is to make them move and to prioritise the hips over the head. Tellingly, the band end on this note of caution to the overcool: ‘I had a dream once/I got trapped in my own heart’.