Interpol “pumped” to be working on a new “rock” album: “My favourite tracks so far are quite high energy”

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Interpol‘s Paul Banks has shared that he’s “pumped” at the new material the band are working on. Find out more below.Last month, it was reported that Interpol were back in the studio, with drummer Sam Fogarino returning to playing following his recovery from spinal surgery.Now, in an interview with NME, Banks has shared that they are in fact working on “a rock record”. “I’m pretty pumped about the stuff that we have worked on so far,” the frontman said. “That’s all I can really say: it’s an enthusiastic ‘yes’.

It’s pretty cool.”Interpol’s last album ‘The Other Side Of Make Believe‘ was released in 2022, which Banks told us he sees as “really intimate”. “It stretches out in different ways and has new energies.

We worked with Flood who is a very talented genius in the studio too.“It sounding weird is probably one of the benefits of writing it more remotely.

Having written in the lockdown, and then rehearsing a bit allowed for a certain characteristic,” he said.“With this [next] record, we’re getting back to writing together in a room and my favourite tracks so far are quite high energy.”Banks also shared that the new sonic direction was, in part, influenced by the band’s recent tour with the Smashing Pumpkins, saying: “I just came away being inspired by the songwriting of that band, across the spectrum.