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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 characterised 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 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. INTERPOL / OTHER SIDE OF MAKE-BELIEVE

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Record LabelMAT, Matador Records

UPC0191401187527

eBay Product ID (ePID)18053646425

Product Key Features

FormatCD

Release Year2022

GenreRock

ArtistInterpol

Release TitleThe Other Side of Make-Believe

Dimensions

Item Height0.26 in

Item Weight0.11 lb

Item Length5.10 in

Item Width5.06 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Number of Tracks11

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Toni 1.2 Fables 1.3 Into the Night 1.4 Mr Credit 1.5 Something Changed 1.6 Renegade Hearts 1.7 Passenger 1.8 Greenwich 1.9 Gran Hotel 1.10 Big Shot City 1.11 Go Easy (Palermo)

Notes2022 release, the first album from Interpol in four years. 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 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."

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The Other Side of Make-Believe by Interpol (CD, 2022)