Interpol – The Other Side of Make-Believe – Vinyl Record LP

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If fate didn’t quite ordain the circumstances forInterpol’sseventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded theirMarauder 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,Interpolquickly got into a productive mood. Coming from a group whose early work was characterized by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expectInterpol’spandemic record to be an emotional tar pit doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duoFloodandAlan Moulderon the boards. But Paul 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.”

1. Toni
2. Fables
3. Into The Night
4. Mr. Credit
5. Something Changed
6. Renegade Hearts
7. Passenger
8. Greenwich
9. Gran Hotel
10. Big Shot City
11. Go Easy (Palermo)