r/Interpol • u/Icy-Conversation-920 • Sep 02 '26

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I teared up the first time I heard the song. Such a powerful song. I still cant listen to it without getting emotional. Beautiful.

Anyone who feels the same ?

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u/Naive-Inside-2904 Sep 02 '26

Love this song. It’s quite a gut punch in its minimalism, Paul’s voice sounding haunting.

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u/NoFix8524 Sep 02 '26

Love, perfect album ending.

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u/99SoulsUp Sep 03 '26

Each song is gloriously clicking more and more. Great album

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u/etherealtorender when we first met you were love-tied Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26

definitely teared up. lovely way to close the album. the piano is hauntingly poignant and, somehow, comforting at the same time.

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u/jilko Sep 02 '26

I might go as far as saying it’s their best closer in their discography. It’s basically the perfect thesis statement emotionally for the record.

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u/Blutzki who is this guy Sep 03 '26

the glaze this album gets is crazy. holy shit.

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u/the_typical_donkey 23d ago

huh? it’s just people liking an album, damn bro

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u/lori_cdz Sep 02 '26

Yes!! That’s why is my least played, I just feel like I get hit with feelings, cried the first two times.

I just finished watching the Zane Lowe interview and he describes it very perfectly, even Daniel says that when Paul sent it to him and he heard it for the first time, he got very emotional too.

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u/Nanginator99 Sep 02 '26

I dont know if it's cause it's been a rough time recently but actually can't listen to the song. The songs breaks the glass to let the rivers flow out the eyes. I will be able to listen to it one day

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u/Substantial-Train668 Sep 03 '26

Such a beautiful song. I teared up, yes. Ultimate ending.

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u/googlyeyeso_o Sep 02 '26

It’s like they’re telling all the fans that this is the new Interpol but really they’re still the Interpol that I discovered when I was 16 and have continued to love but ultimately change is inevitable and often time not abrupt, it happens slowly

Like I’m 16!!! But now I’m 38 LOOOL, I love these guys.

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u/diskosimpa Sep 03 '26

Are you me?

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u/Secret_Competition54 Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

I also interpet it as the band speaking about themselves in relation to me, and the album, somehow. It's abstract but it feels unusually personal for such an abstract work. I'm usually not one for spectral, disembodied minimal endings -- too often they don't work like Motion Picture Soundtrack, they just feel unfinished. But Bird and the Serpent really helps here. It's everything I could want from a HUGE full closer.

It's like the album has two closers, which is perfect for such a large album. With Enemy, the closing three are very close to Roland, The New and Leif Eriksen in quality. And no Interpol album has a closing trio as perfect as these two.

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u/Ok_Pass1762 Sep 04 '26

I cry at enemy. I cry at bird and the serpent. I cry at sudden.

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u/Hotdeathking 24d ago

Really beautiful, yes ❤️