>I love Interpol - they're my favorite band of the moment, and the three gigs I saw them play in 2004 were all spectacular - but the Joy Division comparison has to be the reigning Critical Groupthink champion.  They certainly sound like they haven't bought a record since 1990, and their music seems wholly derived from the U.K. postpunk milieu, of which JD/NO was certainly a part, so I'm not saying the comparison is completely without merit (or that if Sam is making that comparison, he's succumbing to groupthink rather than making the connection all on his own).
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I think I was probably acquiescing to the groupthink a bit even though I 
don't really agree with it. Everybody else seems to think they sound 
like JD, so I tossed them out there. The truth is that I'm more like you 
- I hear a little bit of JD in Interpol, but only a little.

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...it's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns with the 
lights shining sideways when the night is down, or going in 
strange places with a dog nosing before you and a dog nosing 
behind, or drawn to the cities where you'd hear a voice 
kissing and talking deep love in every shadow of the ditch, 
and you passing on with an empty, hungry stomach failing 
from your heart. 

                    - John Millington Synge