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Out of the Dark

INTERPOL IS ON THE ROAD AGAIN this summer for the first time in three years, and they’ve just released their seventh studio album The Other Side of Make-Believe on Matador Records. After years of COVID-19, Trump, general social collapse and now war in Ukraine, the usually somber and dark post-punk group sounds a little...hopeful?

According to Paul Banks, the group’s lead singer/rhythm guitarist/bassist,“It’s a little bit less melancholy, a little bit less so depressing lyrically, because I just felt like there’s no space for that really—we’re saturated with bad

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