One such critical favorite was Interpol of New York City. The dour and dapper quartet were never as well known as fellow Manhattanites the Strokes, but their dark and danceable debut Turn On The Bright Lights topped a lot of year-end polls, not to mention placed the band high on a lot of best-of-the-decade retrospectives.
Although it was critically lauded, Bright Lights heaped the band in with a lot of other acts featuring brooding dudes who approached rock with stark guitar lines and late '70s inspired rhythms. It also set a high bar by which the band is incessantly measured. Many bands from that time who worked in the same oeuvre -- from the Strokes to The Killers -- fizzled out by the end of the aughts as freaky folkers from Brooklyn had left post punk in the dust.
