Interpol

About this show

Interpol plays The Espee, a 2,500-capacity large club in St. Paul Square, on Thursday, March 18. Also on the bill: Deafheaven. The show starts at 7:30 PM. This one could sell out: big draw for a room this size (3.3M listeners, 2,500 capacity). Interpol also has 8 other dates on Go See Shows, in Garden Grove, Chicago, San Diego and Inglewood.

For a band that has spent more than two decades refining a language of restraint, atmosphere and tension, there is something quietly disorienting about the moment that opens Interpol’s This Mirror Weighs a Ton. Not because it breaks from what they are, but because it refracts it — bending familiar shapes into something slightly alien, as if seen through a different kind of light. Appropriately, the album begins with its title song, the name of which arrived almost before its meaning. A phrase unearthed, as Paul Banks describes it, from the subconscious terrain where melody and language blur together. The song itself follows a similar logic.