Name: The Other Side of Make-Believe
Brand: Interpol

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

OLE1875CD

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-07-15

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PIAS

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Artist

Interpol

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Matador

Purchase The Other Side of Make Believe on any format before 17:00, Monday 25th July for a chance to win a limited print of a photograph featured in the Atiba Jefferson x Interpol exhibit shot by Atiba while recording in London with Flood and Moulder. If you have already purchased the album you will be automatically entered into the draw*.

*No purchase necessary entry <a href="https://roughtrade95928.ac-page.com/interpol-competition-entry?test=true">here</a>.

If fate didn’t quite ordain the circumstances for Interpol’s seventh album, it was at least fortunate that the band had happily concluded their Marauder cycle on stage in front of 30 thousand-odd Peruvian fans. Rather than be sent scrambling like so many other musicians on tour or promoting new music, when lockdown clamped in March 2020, Interpol quickly got into a productive mood.

Coming from a group whose early work was characterised by Polish knife-wielders and incarcerated serial killers, you might expect Interpol’s pandemic record to be an emotional tar pit — doubly so, given the presence of towering producer-engineer duo Flood and Moulder on the boards. But Banks felt the call to push in a “counterbalancing” direction, with paeans to mental resilience and the quiet power of going easy. “The nobility of the human spirit is to recover and rebound,” he says. “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.”