Interpol live at Somerset House, July 2023 (Adam Hampton-Matthews)
Interpol played the picturesque venue on July 10th.
Interpol were at Somerset House in the midst of the European touring behind last year’s The Other Side Of Make-Believe LP – one which proves that, ‘as a band they have rarely, if ever, stood as anything other than paragons of their own virtues’:
Opener Toni, with its chilly piano scales and world-weary sounding vocals, is as cinematic as anything from a now vast back catalogue, aided by lyrics about a story taking place on a, ‘flame down Pacific highway’, where a, ‘wayward starlet…looked me up and down, said, babe we’re soaring, but you don’t notice’.
Perhaps one truth is that words usually occupy a slightly lesser space in the fabric of the group’s material, as evidenced by Renegade Hearts’ wooden reading (‘Call me for sake of change/It’s a custom how gluttons do’).
