Well, Dorothy knew it, but these days she’d be sent back to Kansas from Oz wearing handcuffs as an illegal immigrant. New York isn’t strictly Interpol’s home now, but it’s spirit is one the band inherently have sought to capture. And to revitalise themselves following the less than optimal post COVID process which delivered 2022’s The Other Side Of Make Believe they felt there was only one place to return to to make it’s successor.
Working with producer and long standing friend Andrew Wyatt, if the surroundings of his studio in the Lower East Side were familiar, the creative guardrails were not; widening the sonic palette to include strings, synths and acoustic guitars, Wyatt encouraged Messrs. Kessler and Banks in particular to seize the moment as often as possible.
Adorned with a cover image of a chandelier constructed from fourteen CCTV cameras pointing in different directions, the paranoia of the modern age lurks in the background, but whilst archetypal ground is retraced on the likes of See Out Loud, the Cure-esque title track and Wake Up’s funk are certainly mould breaking. If you welcome that sort of experimentation then Iron City and So Rides The Reindeer will probably seal that particular deal, but This Mirror Weighs A Ton sees Interpol use their roots to spread themselves as they’ve rarely done before.
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