Interpol - The Other Side Of Make-Believe

Released 15th July 2022.

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If fate didnt quite ordain the circumstances for Interpols seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded theirMaraudercycle 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 characterised by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expect Interpols pandemic record to be an emotional tar pit doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duo Flood and Moulder on the boards. But Banks felt the call to push in a counterbalancing direction, with paeans to mental resilience and the quiet power of go