Listening to indie band Interpol’s recently released self-titled album “Interpol” sounds like putting your iPod on repeat, except the songs are actually changing.

The album tells the story of an unraveling relationship, starting with “Success” and ending with “The Undoing,” which is, predictably, the relationship’s end.

In the song “Memory Serves,” lead vocalist Paul Banks sings “Feels like, it feels like it’s over/Why is it so hard for me to stay away?”  The album is full of cliché lyrics like these which prolong the end of the album.

After bass player Carlos Dengler split from the band, Interpol only worsened.  This album lacks what their 2002 debut album “Turn on the Bright Lights” had: loud, tension-busting choruses that gives the music what really attracts listeners.  On this album, it’s difficult to tell which part is the chorus and which parts are the verses.

Since their debut album, the band has failed to keep up their momentum, with the same use of atmospheric guitars, constantly poor-pitched vocals and only one stand-out song, “Lights,” the album’s best single.

“Interpol” drags on for 45 painful minutes, when only four minutes would suffice.  Maybe it’s time for Interpol to turn out the lights.