"While James Murphy perfects his latest seven-minute opus pining for dancing days and lost friendships, Interpol write themselves into a rut, and The Strokes don’t bother to write at all, quietly The Walkmen keep putting out uniformly interesting records."

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http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/3705264

review from Drowned in Sound. I thought the first sentence of the review cast the landscape of bands in a thoughtful way.