7.0
Avg Score
6
Opinions
#29,926
All Time
11
Tracks
“Frontman Paul Banks gives his voice a rest on the long-running post-punk band's seventh album, allowing more breathing room for the music”
“With slight changes in disposition and geography, the New York band strives toward a refreshed sound and outlook on its seventh record.”
“With the 20th anniversary of Turn On the Bright Lights approaching this August, it’s inevitable that the ghosts of Interpol’s era-defining debut will linger over their latest offering, The Other Side of Make-Believe. When a band makes an enduring first impression as Interpol did with Turn On, it’s hard not to hold them to a higher standard. Any slight misstep (or, El Pintor) is exaggerated even th”
““Still in shape, my methods refined,” sings Paul Banks on Toni, the opening track of Interpol’s seventh studio album. Banks is a lyric writer who, throughout his career, has tended to deal in allusion and opacity, the kind of imagery that sounds as though it means something, but can essentially be interpreted in any way the listener sees fit: “Draw me a million years and I’ll probably make them my”
