The Other Side of Make‐Believe

The Other Side of Make-Believe is the seventh studio album by American rock band Interpol. It was released on July 15, 2022, by Matador Records. The album was preceded by lead single "Toni" on April 7, along with the announcement of the album. Music and recording The album was written entirely during the COVID-19 pandemic. It marked the group's first writing sessions not in person, with Paul Banks in Edinburgh, Daniel Kessler in Spain, and Sam Fogarino in Athens, Georgia; they corresponded via email. In the summer of 2021, the three reunited for continued songwriting and rehearsals in a group of houses in the Catskills, and in the autumn completed the recording of the album in North London with Alan Moulder and Flood, the former of whom previously mixed the band's fourth and fifth albums, Interpol (2010) and El Pintor (2014). Banks commented on the uplifting sound of the album, contrary to their trademark typically gloomy tone: "A few of the songs in particular have really unabashedly positive sentiments... something that feels good is the aspiration."