There's still a lot of enthusiasm and creative inspiration happening, which makes me feel very lucky." Further Listeningįurther listening from Interpol. "I think that if it was starting to feel like just a job, we would probably hang it up. "I'm very fortunate and proud that we're still a functioning collective of artists," adds Banks. So it's crazy, seven records, to feel this way and also to see that they feel the same way and that they're equally invested." "Both Paul and Sam as musicians are evolving and getting better. It serves as a really good contrast to what we've done."Īfter 25 years the bond between the three band members remains strong. Fogarino adds, "You look back on the catalog and it shines a good light. when you see us starting to hit these parameters that are usually measured in the pop world, that was freaky and amazing."Īs for The Other Side of Make-Believe, Banks considers it the band's finest work. When we play "NYC" and things like that, it resonates with me, too." Fogarino says, "It just kept moving. You just have the same 10 friends every show until we put out that record. Kessler recalls, "We had no one coming to our shows in New York. Interpol's first record for Matador was Turn on the Bright Lights, which got rave reviews and marks its 20th anniversary this August a number of its songs such as "Untitled," "PDA" and "NYC" remain part of the band's setlist. 'Where the Crawdads Sing' Director on Why Taylor Swift's Song Was 'Perfect'.Roger Waters Slammed for Saying He's 'More Important' Than Drake.Crosby, Stills & Nash Quietly Return to Spotify After Rogan Boycott.Mitski Dazzles at Sold-Out New York City Show."Just having that invitation to make a record was like, 'I can't believe we're making a record.' That feeling is still very, very real to me because everyone rejected us." "I only dreamt as far as, 'I hope we get to make a record,'" remembers Kessler. (Dengler left the band in 2010.) At the time, Interpol struggled to get noticed during the New York post-punk revival that saw the emergence of The National, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Strokes. I was like, 'Huh, this guy is really distinctive.' When we actually just played music, something special was happening."įogarino was the last piece of the puzzle joining Interpol in 2000. And then Paul I met in a similar situation and he belonged in a way that was very rare. He was dressed similar to me, very sort of mod-ish looking, and I just had a feeling. "I was very miserable that I couldn't find anyone to play with," Kessler says. Kessler, then a student at New York University, recruited Banks and bassist Carlos Dengler to form a band. Interpol got started 25 years ago in New York City. The moody and turbulent Interpol sound is heard on the tracks "Gran Hotel," "Renegade Hearts" and "Into the Night. While the rocker "Fables," which the band is performing on its current tour furthers the lyrical optimism, the new approach doesn't mean Interpol has gone soft. Eventually, they regrouped in the Catskills in upstate New York then completed the record in England with producers Alan Moulder and Flood (Mark Ellis), whose collective credits include U2, Depeche Mode, the Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails. The lockdown in 2020 initially forced the band to work remotely and send each other parts via computer rather than collaborating together in person. "Where someone might be like, 'It's dark or gloomy,' to me, it's more like, 'No, we put our hearts into everything we do.' It's also part of the path forward, peeling away to the core of honesty."
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"Our songs are full of emotion," adds lead guitarist Daniel Kessler.
Along the way, it informs the music, too." What spoke to me was going the other way with a little bit more of an uplifting kind of attitude."ĭrummer Sam Fogarino says about the shift in lyrical direction, "It's like Paul went from a very angsty, disillusioned young man to a very firm-standing mature man that isn't crying for help, but says that help is there. After years of COVID-19, Trump, general social collapse and now war in Ukraine, the usually somber and dark post-punk group sounds a little.hopeful?Īccording to Paul Banks, the group's lead singer/rhythm guitarist/bassist, "It's a little bit less melancholy, a little bit less so depressing lyrically, because I just felt like there's no space for that really-we're saturated with bad vibes at the moment. Interpol is on the road again this summer for the first time in three years, and they've just released their seventh studio album The Other Side of Make-Believe on Matador Records.
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