The Other Side of Make‐Believe by Interpol

The Other Side of Make-Believe, Interpol's seventh studio album, came out on Matador on July 15, 2022, and it's the New York band sounding more at ease than they have in years. Flood produced it and Alan Moulder mixed it, with the sessions running from September 2021 to January 2022 at Battery Studios in London.

Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler and Sam Fogarino keep the old ingredients, those interlocking guitars and that nocturnal hum, but the tempos are slower, the edges softer and Banks's croon warmer. "Toni", "Something Changed", "Fables" and "Gran Hotel" were the singles, and "Passenger", whose opening words supplied the album's title, got a video of its own. It's the sound of post-punk revivalists growing up without going soft.

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