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Exclusive interview: New York band Interpol bares its DNA on new album
Interpol’s Sam Fogarino tells The Jakarta Post about the importance of trust during recording and the “quintessence” of the band's sound.
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Remote working: Interpol — (left to right) Daniel Kessler (lead guitar, vocals), Sam Fogarino (drums) and Paul Banks (lead vocals, guitar) — wrote their seventh studio album, 'The Other Side of Make-Believe', remotely from different parts of the world amid the pandemic. (Courtesy of Atiba Jefferson) (Courtesy of Atiba Jefferson/Courtesy of Atiba Jefferson)
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em>Interpol’s Sam Fogarino tells The Jakarta Post about the importance of trust during recording and the ‘quintessence’ of the band’s sound.
On July 15, New York rock band Interpol introduced the entirety of its seventh studio album The Other Side of Make-Believe, six months after it first teased the opening plinking piano notes to “Toni”.
Unlike its immediate, sonically busier predecessor, Marauder (2018), The Other Side of Make-Believe is a softer, sparser yet more complete record with an overarching feeling of familiarity that is reminiscent of the earliest releases.
Working with producers
“I view it as a ‘one long movement’. Because Marauder was when we first started to work with a producer,” Sam Fogarino, the drummer of the band, told The Jakarta Post on July 29.
“[It was] his say, 100 percent. He had the final say [for the album],” Fogarino added, referring to New York-based producer Dave Fridmann who helmed the band’s sixth studio album.
“That’s what’s cool [about] working with producers. It’s easy to travel down a road that you think is brilliant, and it [turns out as] self-indulgent. You can’t self-edit.”
