The Other Side of Make-Believe Tracklist
Coming from a group whose early work was characterised by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expect Interpol’s pandemic record to be an emotional tar pit — doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duo Flood and Moulder on the boards. But Banks felt the call to push in a “counterbalancing” direction, with paeans to mental resilience and the quiet power of going easy. “The nobility of the human spirit is to recover and rebound,” he says. “Yeah, I could focus on how fucked everything is, but I feel now is the time when being hopeful is necessary, and a still-believable emotion within what makes Interpol Interpol.”“This album is vibey. It is the essence of the band, the heart and the soul, our songs have a specific type of DNA and this album takes it and turns it into something completely different “said the vocalist Paul Banks.
For his part, the guitarist Daniel Kessler added: “We are an old school band that was used to meeting and rehearsing until the songs made sense and could stand on their own. I think that’s why it was so challenging to adapt and use this technology. “
Via Rolling Stone
“The Other Side of Make-Believe” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
Paul Banks:
I’m very fascinated with musing on the human imagination and our proclivity to come up with stories to make sense of reality. On the one hand, that’s beautiful, distinguishes us from other species and allows all of fiction and film and art, this abstract thinking as a way to wrestle chaos into sense. But I feel like there’s something of a downside to it—self-delusion and self-deception that takes over with reality is too cold and frightening. The world we live in right now, there’s a lot of tension between what is true and what is false.
—via Apple Music
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Is there official animated artwork?
Yes, Apple Music features animated artwork for this release.
