“Pioneer to the Falls” is easily the best song on Our Love to Admire, and the best thing Interpol has recorded since Turn on the Bright Lights (2002). It’s darkly romantic and achingly pretty; it sounds like their debut, even though the band pushed the envelope of their well-worn formula, adding a simple piano line and horns. The rest of the song is just a game of subtraction and addition. The drums come in heavy, but the real kicker is when they pull back, leaving just Daniel Kessler’s guitar ringing under Paul Banks’s croon: “you try / you fly straight into my heart.” The song clocks in at less than six minutes, but feels longer. Believe me: this is the only song on the record for which that can be considered a good thing.

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