Interpol announce new album with opening track "Toni"

"Toni" lands with a Van Alpert-directed video, and marks Interpol's first new material since their 2019 EP A Fine Mess.

The new song is the opener from Interpol's upcoming seventh album The Other Side of Make-Believe, which will follow the band's 2018 album Marauder.

Interpol started work on the new album remotely in 2020, and in early 2021 they headed to a rented home in the Catskills before completing the record in North London with Flood and co-producer Alan Moulder.

Banks says of the record, "The nobility of the human spirit is to rebound. 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."

Sam Fogarino says Flood helped Interpol to "hyperbolise all of our good qualities. Our band has never exploited rock ‘n roll tropes, no big drum fills or wailing solos, so he located the core honesty in our sound and found a way to widen it. There’s a phrase I love about drumming: ‘the rhythm hates the melody’ — the best kind of drumming either totally accentuates what’s being conveyed, or ploughs through it."

Tracklist:

1. Toni
2. Fables
3. Into the Night
4. Mr. Credit
5. Something Changed
6. Renegade Hearts
7. Passenger
8. Greenwich
9. Gran Hotel
10. Big Shot City
11. Go Easy (Palermo)