Rating: NNN
Maybe Paul Banks, singer for Interpol, needed to assume an alter ego to put out this album to distance himself from his day job. And it might’ve worked had he not gone and written half an album’s worth of songs that sound exactly like Interpol.
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Guitar-driven Games For Days and Antics-like opener Only If You Run could slide easily onto any of Interpol’s three albums, but they’re not the record’s best cuts. Better are those where Banks sounds a little outside his comfort zone, as on the moody acoustic-touched Skyscraper or on weird, enjoyable On The Esplanade. This could be a glimpse of a post-Interpol Banks or a hint at a musical transition within the band. It’s worth a listen either way.
Top track: On The Esplanade
