“All The Rage Back Home” by Interpol

Interpol opened El Pintor, their fifth album, with "All the Rage Back Home" in 2014, and made it the record's lead single too. The band wrote and produced it themselves: Paul Banks singing and playing guitar, Daniel Kessler on piano, Samuel Fogarino on drums and Brandon Curtis adding keyboards. Rolling Stone called it anxious, atmospheric post-punk, and that's about right, all nerves and night air with the pulse racing underneath.

Bassist Carlos Dengler had been gone since 2010, so in the black-and-white video, co-directed by Banks and Sophia Peer, Banks handles the bass while the band plays in a dark room cut against surfers taking on big waves. The song peaked at 26 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, and Rock Band players could add it to the game as a download.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.