Interpol – The Other Side Of Make-Believe (LP Vinyl)
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Interpol's seventh studio outing finds Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, and Sam Fogarino working with producers Flood and Alan Moulder, a pairing that pulls the band toward something more spacious and controlled than the jagged post-punk urgency of their early Matador years. Recorded during a rare moment of stillness, the album reflects a band that had spent two decades honing their sound and finally had the time to sit with it.
If fate didn't quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol's seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of 30 thousand-odd Peruvian fans. Rather than be sent scrambling like so many other musicians on tour or promoting new music, when lockdown clamped in March 2020, Interpol quickly got into a productive mood.
Coming from a group whose early work was characterized by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expect Interpol's pandemic record to be an emotional tar pit - doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duo Flood and Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode) on the boards. But Banks felt the call to push in a "counterbalancing" direction, with paeans to mental resilience and the quiet power of going easy. "The nobility of the human spirit is to recover and rebound," he says. "Yeah, I could focus on how fucked everything is, but I feel now is the time when being hopeful is necessary, and a still-believable emotion within what makes Interpol Interpol."
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 191401187510
Label: Matador Records
Release Date: 7.15.22
Format: LP Vinyl