Interpol did not emerge unscathed from the pandemic. The chain confinements have definitely eroded the morale of the New York post-punk group, which composed from a distance, each of the members locked up in their bubble, the sullen songs of their seventh album in twenty years, yet announced with the dynamics Tony which opens the album. Admittedly, the spleen has always resonated in the placid voice of singer and guitarist Paul Banks, the sounds of the guitars are still just as feverish and the group’s melodies often find their target, on passenger for example, or on Fables, which would be so much better if the band didn’t pout so much while playing it. That’s the whole problem The Other Side of Make-Believe : no one wants to dance listening to Interpol anymore, not even its members. The urgency ofAll the Rage Back Homethe relentlessness in Barrier 1the aggressiveness of the guitars of slow handseverything that made the group’s old successes memorable has also been confined, Interpol having chosen to feel sorry for our collective fate.
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