Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver (Capitol)
By: Thomas Hannan
Write a music video down on paper and it looks totally bloody stupid. For the first thirty seconds of this clip for Interpol's comeback single 'The Heinrich Maneuver', nothing happens apart from a woman blinking once, in a mirror. Then someone talks on a mobile phone, and it turns out the whole cast of the video are walking down a street next to an old woman, all looking very worried. Then some birds arrive. And a bus kills someone. Some label boss, somewhere, saw that written on a page and thought 'that's exactly what I want'.
VIDEO: WINDOWS MEDIA / QUICKTIME / REAL VIDEO