Banks

Going Solo... (9 items)
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Albums Heard in 2012 (181 items)
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Paul Banks, lead singer, guitarist and songwriter for Interpol, steps fully out from behind his Julian Plenti alter-ego on his second solo album. Following 2012's limited edition (and now sold out) EP, the 2012 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.