Banks, Paul - Banks

NEW VINYL LP ON MATADOR 2012

180 GRAM VINYL INCL. CD.

Paul Banks, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Interpol, finally steps fully out from behind his Julian Plenti alter-ego on his second solo album. Following this summer’s limited edition (and now sold out) EP, the new album is a tour de force of mechanized, minor-key intensity. Recorded in New York and Connecticut with producer Peter Katis (Interpol, The National, Shearwater, Jónsi among others), Banks is by turns bleak, sad and exhilarating. Featuring some of Banks’s most complex song structures yet, tracks like “The Base” and “Young Again” explore topics ranging from military alienation to loss of childhood. “I’m young again, thanks a lot - I feel young again, ra ra,” Banks sings, to a background of mournful, treated guitars, backward masking and raw strings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Banks_%28musician%29

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Tracklist

1.  The Base
2.  Over My Shoulder
3.  Arise, Awake
4.  Young Again
5.  Lisbon
6.  I’ll Sue You
7.  Paid For That
8.  Another Chance
9.  No Mistakes
10. Summertime Is Coming