It is not any unusual when the subject involves Interpol discography to often hear and / or read critics moaning about how good they used to be sixteen years ago after the elegant post punk display of «Turn on The Bright Lights» or when Carlos Dengler was playing bass with the band and how he did craft their signature sound, blah, blah, blah...
People seem to have some hardship in putting things under perspective concerning some iconic bands and when it comes to Interpol that happens quite often. Interpol´s debut album did push the band really higher and thus consequently originating the sudden appearance of a crowd of devotees from all over. The band was probably at the acme of their angst ridden musical creativity, living the life at the speed of light and mistakes of more youthful years and though their followers and critics did want the band to keep compulsively releasing recurrent altered versions of the first album that would not happen.
Interpol might have been marked to be stadium fillers just like Foo Fighters and bands alike but things worked out for the band quite differently. Interpol would not become the aforementioned stadium fillers because the fashionable exuberance, cleanness and foggy aura of their musical and stage aesthetic demanded something else different so, instead of arenas Interpol began selling out amphitheaters all around the Planet Earth feeding the militancy of angst hungry crowds.
By the time «El Pintor» was released many believed Interpol was living the last days of musical creativity and becoming boringly predictable. Such a huge misconception this would prove out to be. A couple of months ago the band decided to challenge the prejudices of the musical world when unexpectedly announced a new album during 2018. What were they up to and what should we expect from Banks, Kessler and Fogarino?
If there is something that makes of Interpol’s sixth album one of the most concise highlights of 2018, lays upon the fact that instead of being nostalgically stuck in the past, obsessively asking themselves if they would be the exciting, sparkling, euphoric post punk 21st century ambassadors forevermore, the band did call a truce with their past and set moving on and the result could not have been more eloquent: «Marauder» is a brilliant, mature album, a crystal clear statement that life goes on, and we all learn for the better or worst on how to deal with the highs and lows and Interpol did that in great fashionable angst ridden clean, chic style.
INDIEVOTION SCORE: 8.5/10