“Toni” by Interpol

"Toni" was the lead single from The Other Side of Make-Believe, Interpol's seventh album, first teased in January 2022 and properly unveiled on April 7 with a video directed by Van Alpert. It's built around a piano figure from guitarist Daniel Kessler, one of just two songs he wrote from the piano up, and Paul Banks has said it only really took shape once the band stopped writing remotely and got into a room for long stretches of jamming, where they had to decide whether it should become a rock song at all.

Flood produced, with Alan Moulder mixing and adding production alongside Richie Kennedy, who recorded it; Tom Herbert engineered. The single's sleeve is a black-and-white treatment of the first NASA photo ever taken of two supersonic shockwaves meeting in flight.

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