Turn On the Bright Lights

Album by Interpol

Released 19 August 2002

rock indie rock post-punk revival

Tracklist

Digital Media 1: Turn On the Bright Lights
1
Untitled
3:56
3.8 ★
2
Obstacle 1
4:11
3.8 ★
3
NYC
4:19
3.9 ★
4
PDA
5:00
3.7 ★
5
Say Hello to the Angels
4:28
3.0 ★
6
Hands Away
3:05
3.6 ★
7
Obstacle 2
3:47
3.6 ★
8
Stella was a diver and she was always down
6:28
4.0 ★
9
Roland
3:35
3.5 ★
10
The New
6:07
3.8 ★
11
Leif Erikson
4:00
3.5 ★
Digital Media 2: 1998–2001
1
Interlude
1:00
2
Specialist
6:39
3.0 ★
3
PDA (first demo)
4:44
4
Roland (first demo)
3:44
5
Get the Girls/Song 5 (first demo)
3:47
6
Precipitate (second demo)
5:33
7
Song Seven (second demo)
4:43
8
A Time to Be So Small (second demo)
5:46
9
Untitled (third demo)
4:12
10
Stella (third demo)
6:39
11
NYC (third demo)
4:26
12
Leif Erikson (third demo)
4:27
13
Gavilan/Cubed (third demo)
6:48
14
Obstacle 2 (Peel session)
3:53
15
Hands Away (Peel session)
3:09
16
The New (Peel session)
5:59
17
NYC (Peel session)
4:17

Recent reviews

gentlechow 23 Mar 2026

★★★★½

This reminded me a lot of Fontaines DC because it’s a very moody and driven rock album. Gonna have to go back and listen to it a couple more times to add to this.

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Release credits

Carlos Dengler
bass guitar [1-11]
Daniel Kessler
guitar [1-11]
Doug Henderson
mix [3-5], recording [3-5]
Gareth Jones
mix [1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11, 2.2]
Interpol
mix [9-13]
Jamie Hart
engineer [14]
Nicolas Vernhes
mix [6-8], recording [6-8]
Paul Banks
guitar [1-11], lead vocals [1-11]
Peter Katis
mix [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-10], recording [1.1-11, 2.2]
Samuel Fogarino
drums (drum set) [1-11], mix [9-13], producer [11], recording [9-13]
Simon Askew
mix [14-17], producer [14], recording [14-17]