While the meteors whiz by in the sky, Paul Banks seeks support in a song: “It’s time we made something stable/ We’re in the sights of perfect danger”, he laments in “Fables” and later says goodbye to the old one in the anthemic chorus world that have betrayed their values. In fact, it is not only in this song that he opposes the zeitgeist, “The Other Side Of Make-Believe”, the seventh Interpol album, delivers the post-punk soundtrack for uncertain, troubled times and gathers in songs that are more intimate and vulnerable sound like you know it from this band from New York, good intentions and dark prophecies.
Not only in the lyrics there is general excitement
Already in the song “Toni”, which opens the album, Banks looks anxiously into the future to an oscillating piano motif, sings against the threatening vortex in which the world finds itself: “The aim now is perfection always/ The aim now is fuckin ‘Leave it behind’, he demands before guitarist Daniel Kessler can let off steam. Not only in the lyrics there is general excitement. With the numbers “Renegade Hearts” and “Gran Hotel” decorated with cute guitar parts, Interpol have songs in their repertoire that sound like indie rock classics at first listen. But mostly they translate the nervousness of the zeitgeist into perfidiously shifted rhythms, where drummer Sam Fogarino in particular does a great job and producers Flood and Alan Moulder get the best out of the material.
“Into The Night” is such a nasty, bulky polyrhythmic behemoth, where the guitar meets bass and drums, and they all go head-to-head with Banks’ vocal line. Also, “Greenwich” and “Go Easy (Palermo)” actually sound more progal than post-rock with their stumbling layers of rhythm. And on “Something Changed,” to a twitching beat, Banks once again looks to the future with a mixture of curiosity and panic: “I want to see/ What kind of place they’d lay for me.”
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