If you noticed a bit of a drop off with Interpol’s last album, 2007’s Our Love to Admire, you weren’t alone. Says drummer Sam Fogarino, “[The album] was not our most cohesive moment… It was when reality kicked in as to where we were and where we were never going back to.”
Although the band has kept relatively quiet in the ensuing years, its members working chiefly on other projects, Interpol spent the spring recording its still-untitled fourth album in Manhattan’s famed Electric Lady studios. It will be released on Capitol Records in early 2010. “The new record falls back towards the first,” Fogarino says over dinner in his now-home city of Athens, Ga. “In trying to move forward, there was an unspoken realization that you can’t let go of your sonic-defining tag. There was an effort in Daniel [Kessler]’s guitar tone; he rediscovered it playing in his loft space for a year without anybody. The quality of that tone, played in a big room, is just beautiful. It creates an atmosphere.”
