Interpol: "Lights"

The new official video for Interpol's single "Lights" from their upcoming self-titled cd Interpol. It sounds like a return to the original sound from Turn On The Bright Lights: chiming guitars, slow building tempos, and a typically impassioned vocal from Paul Banks.

The video is stunningly realized; a fetishistic tableau of haunting erotic imagery in a striking palate of crisp blacks, whites, and grays. I have no idea what any of it means or represents. The title card merely says it is a pheromone-harvesting ritual deep within the inner chambers of the Rinoceros Beetle. Regardless of the meaning, the bizarre images stick in the brain long after viewing.