It took a global pandemic to get Interpol frontman Paul Banks to speak at a reasonable volume. For two decades, the singer and multi-instrumentalist has done a fairly good impression of a fire searcher, shouting through post-punk smoke at survivors. But because the band wrote its seventh full-length remotely, he mostly abandoned the known pleasures of Ian Curtis worship for a more nuanced approach. Banks’ version of keening (which is still pretty full-throated) kicked over a chain of dominos, which allow Interpol to make more introspective, textured, and altogether breathable...
- 7/12/2022
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
As summer turned to fall in 2020, Interpol’s Paul Banks was laying low in Edinburgh, sitting by a window in “a comfy chair,” watching the leaves change outside. He sang quietly, trying not to disturb the neighbors as he worked on new songs he describes as “very relaxed,” “intimate,” “positive-feeling,” and “a bit more uplifting.”
These aren’t words that your average person with vivid memories of the early 2000s would expect to hear from anyone in Interpol. Back then they were Manhattan’s kings of moody style, the guys...
These aren’t words that your average person with vivid memories of the early 2000s would expect to hear from anyone in Interpol. Back then they were Manhattan’s kings of moody style, the guys...
- 11/11/2021
- by Simon Vozick-Levinson
- Rollingstone.com
It’s been 16 years since Interpol released their celebrated debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, and judging from their latest record, it seems a few of those lights may need replacing. Much of Marauder, the group’s sixth full-length, is “Interpol by Numbers”: a little understated guitar here, a stabby, Peter Hooky bass line there and plenty of frontman Paul Banks’ vigorously oblique declarations of frustration and feeling empty inside. And because Banks’ signature is barking in near-monotonous rhythms, a bit like musical Morse code, a lot of the...
- 8/24/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
HollywoodNews.com: Interpol formed in 1997 in New York City and the original lineup consisted of members Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler, Carlos Dengler, and Greg Drudy. The band lost Drudy in 2000, who was replaced by Sam Fogarino. Now despite releasing their new single “Lights” off the upcoming new album, member Carlos D has decided that he is going to depart the band to pursue new goals.
Below is the statement the band posted on their website:
Dear fans,
As some of you have surely heard, Interpol has completed it’s new album.
It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, and mixed with Alan Moulder at Assault and Battery, London.
The four of us poured our collective heart into this music and we are very proud and excited to share it.
It’s a heavy record. But we’re feeling limber; and we’re going to carry it all around the world for you.
Below is the statement the band posted on their website:
Dear fans,
As some of you have surely heard, Interpol has completed it’s new album.
It was recorded at Electric Lady Studios, New York, and mixed with Alan Moulder at Assault and Battery, London.
The four of us poured our collective heart into this music and we are very proud and excited to share it.
It’s a heavy record. But we’re feeling limber; and we’re going to carry it all around the world for you.
- 5/10/2010
- by Linelle Schultz
- Hollywoodnews.com
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