At this late date in history, it makes sense that hipster indie-rock bands will remix their own shit. An Interpol remix CD with only four cuts, however, makes less sense. Though Carlos D.'s "Public Pervert" enhances the album version's oblique iciness with sexy synths, this EP isn't worth the lunch money of anyone not DJ'ing a webzine launch party at the Gramercy Park Hotel.

“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”