Anyone else like Interpol? Turn on the Bright Lights was one of my favorite albums, so I thought I'd try and recreate the guitar tone on PDA using some synths and modular. Details in the comments.
Posted Apr 28, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC
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Love love love this.
First of all, one of my favorite bands and albums of all time. Plays even better through the synths... Completely reimagines it and REALLY sounds like some lost song from the late 70s post punk basements. Bummed though because I really wanted to hear that awesome ambient part that plays for the last third of the song.
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Thanks so much!
That album is so good! I’d actually never really paid a ton of attention to the lyrics either. I always just thought about 200 couches and how that was a lot of couches.
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Sounds good. I love interpol. One of the last bands I got excited about.
are the drums modular too?
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Same on Interpol. That dark sound from NYC in the early 2000s just reflected everything that was going on.
The drums are from my DAW. I thought about trying to do it using Bitbox Micro, but I just wanted to mess around a bit.
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That is really cool.. you managed to get shockingly close to those droning/washy guitars.
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Thanks! Running the matriarch into the Tanh3 completely changed the sound. I bought that little thing on a whim because I’m a sucker for distortion and it might be my favorite I have.
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Wish Interpol would step out of their comfort zone like this. Fine Mess got some way there but the recent stuff is still the same riffs. This shows there’s scope in those songs for change and still be Interpol.
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Nice! Good memories there - I saw LCD Soundsystem and Interpol open for the Pixies in, like, 2005 or so.
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That lineup is incredible.
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That time period had some of the best synthrock acts. Check out zoot woman if you've never heard them.
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I’d never heard of them. I just listened to Grey Day and Automatic and it’s rad! I was definitely expecting a woman.
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Hell yeah, grey day is one of my favorites, also a huge fan of Holiday Home if I want to feel melancholic.
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I like that one a lot. It’s crazy how simple the drums are and how catchy the whole thing is.
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An absolutely stellar album with one of my favourite songs of all time. "NYC" fucking love that one. You did a great job with your kit!
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NYC is my favorite song on that album too. I love that it’s named after a marketing campaign for NYC. Obstacle 1 is a close second on that album.
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I've been getting crushed with work lately, so I've had no energy for synths, so last night I thought I'd just try and do something fun with one of my favorite bands. Nothing like some music to bring you out of a funk.
Main guitar/bass sounds from my Moog Matriarch, Mother 32, and Moog Minitaur.
Mutable Instruments Beads, Happy Nerding FX Aid, and Starlab on reverb.
Schlappi Engineering and Instruo Tanh3 for wavefolding/distortion.
Mutable Veils 2020 VCA
Steady State Fate Vortices on mixing duties
Plus, a circuit bent 1980s telephone as a vocal mic
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That song's wonderful. What's with the crackling noises? Artifacts? They are distracting.
Your vocal performance is very good.
Thanks!
I had the Vortices too hot and didn’t notice it because I was so into it all. I unpatched it all before I took a good listen, then noticed the crackling hoping it wouldn’t be too distracting.
Lesson learned. Probably. Maybe.
I heard the artifacts too! I thought they played well to the lofi post punk vibe, especially if you re-master the track a bit... you can probably get away with it.
Well, you'd like to be heard; that's something you have to tackle.