
With the long awaited news that a new Interpol album is due for 2010 comes the perfect opportunity to slyly segue in a little piece about the solo album of frontman Paul Banks, released on August 4th under the pseudonym Julian Plenti. NME points out in the first paragraph of their review of "Julian Plenti Is… Skyscraper" that Paul Banks' relative anonymity leads to his solo album being "nothing to get your knickers in a twist over". A wonderful example of the elegant prose of NME writers, of course. However, they are completely right, and this is exactly why it [...]