Our Love to Admire is the third studio album by Interpol. It was released on July 10th, 2007. It was the first album in which the band used keyboards from the start, which they said was like “having a fifth member”. It was the only record they released through a major label, Capitol Records.
The cover photograph [of lions attacking an antelope] was taken at a store in Utah, and most of the other photos came from the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles. There’s a great juxtaposition between nature and our work. Our music is very meticulously composed, and there’s something about the chaos of nature that felt provocative and playful. I’m really into design, and everybody was feeling it, which is good. Our band is a democracy, so sometimes it’s a nuisance, like, ‘God, I wish I could be the dictator of something!’
Paul Banks, Interview with Rolling Stone Magazine