“Interpol’s sixth album, ‘Marauder’, is adorned with an iconic photo of Attorney General Elliot Richardson. It’s 1973 and he’s in the midst of resigning, having refused President Nixon’s orders to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was leading an investigation into the Watergate scandal. In black and white, Richardson sits alone in the centre – alienated yet content in this selfless and rig”
“Taken on its own terms, Interpol's Marauder is a superb return”
“There is a palpable sense of urgency to this sixth Interpol record and you wonder how much of it has to do with the peculiar few years they’ve had since their last full-length, 2014’s ‘El Pintor’. That album was their first as a three-piece and met with genuinely mixed reviews; some saw their return to the tried-and-true indie rock of ‘Antics’ and ‘Our Love to Admire’ as both welcome and wise afte”
“On their sixth record, the New York band is stuck in a Medium Mood and a new producer doesn’t help energize their increasingly frozen-in-time sound.”
“The best moments on veteran New York post-punk band's latest LP finds them stepping out of their comfort zone”
“After launching themselves to critical acclaim in 2002 with their instant classic debut LP Turn on the Bright Lights, a tightly wound, moody post-punk album that encapsulated the fears and wavering of their NYC hometown after 9/11, Interpol continued to mine the genre's sounds — to diminishing returns. On sixth album Marauder, the band try something new: actually sounding like they're having the s”
