[visualinfidelity]

what?!?! new album news?! *pinching myself* or is it just a "limited edition" with Skyscraper material? thoughts??

:D :D :D :D

Paul Banks - Julian Plenti Lives

Update: New Paul Banks page on Matador. I guess it is the new album! That was quick. Check it out here: Paul Banks

[BitterBreed]

I'm so excited!! :)
No moniker this time, maybe he's more comfortable with being the main man.

[visualinfidelity]

just realized it says EP. An EP isnt a whole album. What are you up to Banks? :blink:

[pqsm]

Awesome news!!
Okay so it's an EP and not actually an album!? The Album will come later this year! :)

On Matador page there's the EP tracklist and more information:

Paul Banks of Interpol steps out from behind his alter-ego Julian Plenti with this 5-song EP. The EP is an introduction to his upcoming full length album Banks. The EP is strictly limited and numbered in both formats, in a quantity of 1500 apiece. It features 5 tracks, including the brooding and beautiful original “Summertime Is Coming,” plus an original instrumental and three covers.
1. Perimeter Deactivated (Theme from ‘The Running Man’ film)
2. Summertime Is Coming
3. Mythsysizer (J Dilla)
4. I’m A Fool To Want You (Frank Sinatra)
5. Cavern Worship


And the cover too!

http://store.matadorrecords.com/media/catalog/product/cache/4/image/360x/85e4522595efc69f496374d01ef2bf13/o/l/ole-990_paul_banks-julian_plenti_lives.jpg

[pqsm]

I'm really exited about this news! Never thought they come up so early.

So according to that the EP information on Matador website.. the new album will be called "Banks"!? :o
I'm really curious to listen about the track "Summertime Is Coming" and that new cover.. never thought that he would do a cover of a Sinatra song.
Right now that page is not showing on.. don't know why. :huh: here

[visualinfidelity]

pqsm, on 17 April 2012 - 02:32 PM, said:

I'm really exited about this news! Never thought they come up so early.

So according to that the EP information on Matador website.. the new album will be called "Banks"!? :o
I'm really curious to listen about the track "Summertime Is Coming" and that new cover.. never thought that he would do a cover of a Sinatra song.
Right now that page is not showing on.. don't know why. :huh: here

WOW. I am REALLY excited for that Sinatra cover and of course the new track... no words right now. :P

[Gehain]

"Bright nights
Interpol in the small hours; Broken River Prophet at T.T.’s
BY WILL SPITZ

The rooster wasn’t crowing yet, but it was wind-down time — 4 a.m. — and somehow I’d wound up sitting in some house in Brighton with Interpol’s Paul Banks, who was helping my band mate work out the chords to John Lennon’s "Jealous Guy." The rest of Interpol — or at least bassist Carlos D. and guitarist Daniel Kessler — were holed up with most of the partiers in an upstairs bedroom with a stereo, and the house was a mess of passed-out revelers and empty PBR cans. But down in the living room, Ted Billings, my brother-in-arms, was fiddling on an Ibanez while Banks offered chord suggestions. Eventually they got it, and they celebrated — Ted, Paul, unidentified-girl-with-Paul — with a sing-along. Then Banks grabbed the Ibanez and started strumming an interesting progression I couldn’t quite place. What was it? "It’s called ‘Summertime Is Coming.’ " By who? He smiled: "By me." I’m not sure which was the more surprising: that Banks was strumming new Interpol songs at dawn in Brighton — instead of, say, assisting suicides or whatever antics they’re assumed to be up to in their off-hours — or that there’s a new Interpol song with the word "Summertime" in it.

Earlier that night, the impeccably dressed and coiffed Carlos D. had followed Interpol’s Orpheum set by showing up with a crate of records to DJ at Central Square’s swank, SoHo-style Middlesex Lounge, which was predictably packed by a style-council crowd. He opened with the Cure, but a sequence of ’80s pop failed to set the hipsters dancing. It wasn’t until three-quarters of the way through his set that Salt ’n’ Pepa’s "Push It" woke people up a bit; invigorated, he threw on Gang of Four, lit up a surreptitious cigarette (gasp!), and started rocking the air bass. Then, out of nowhere, he turned into Dee Snider: he followed "Push It" with the Stooges’ "I Wanna Be Your Dog," segued into Metallica’s thrashy "Hit the Lights" from Kill ’Em All and Slayer’s "War Ensemble," and closed with the speed-metal national anthem, Motörhead’s "Ace of Spades" — raucously redeeming an otherwise pedestrian set.

Some friends of Victory at Sea’s Taro Hatanaka gave him a private going-away party last Saturday evening, and on Sunday night, he made his last local appearance for the foreseeable future, guesting with the Lockgroove/Mistle Thrush spinoff Broken River Prophet at T.T. the Bear’s Place. "He’s going away for a while," said head Prophet Adam Brilla, "so enjoy his playing while you can." Hatanaka, a native of Japan, has been living in the States for six years, but his work visa recently expired, and he’s moving back to Japan this week. He has mixed feelings about leaving. "I’ve made a lot of friends here, through music and other things," he said, a few minutes before hopping on stage. But he still has friends in Japan, and he plans to pursue a solo project there and also hopes to start a new band. Hatanaka was sitting in with BRP to provide plaintive violin for the group’s more melancholy, subdued songs. But on the set’s finale, the group built an epic from the ground up, starting with nothing but some theremin noise and ending in full-on freak-out mode, with Lockgroove’s Martin Rex joining in on a second drum kit, the theremin spastically squealing and Brilla and Hatanaka furiously strumming and bowing. It was a fitting farewell.

Will Spitz’s band, Slater, play this Wednesday, March 23, at the Middle East.


Issue Date: March 18 - 24, 2005"

link

[ThenGo]

Happy day, happy day!!!

[obstaclespecialist]

So, it's a Julian Plenti record, but the artist is Paul Banks? I'm somewhat confused. Is Matador making him use his real name :unsure:

[Serpent Swells]

Those song titles are f*cking awesome, even if three of them are covers and not technically named by him.

[visualinfidelity]

obstaclespecialist, on 17 April 2012 - 07:22 PM, said:

So, it's a Julian Plenti record, but the artist is Paul Banks? I'm somewhat confused. Is Matador making him use his real name :unsure:

I think so. I remember a fan saying that Paul said Matador was disappointed in the success of the album and they thought it was because he didn't use the "Paul Banks" name.

[tercat]

Everyone always knew JP was Paul Banks. It was another name, but not a real alter ego. He's coming out from behind the (thin) curtain. As we saw with the live shows last go around, Paul is not opposed to doing covers. This is fun. I hope it's a good record.

[elfyz]

obstaclespecialist, on 18 April 2012 - 05:22 AM, said:

So, it's a Julian Plenti record, but the artist is Paul Banks? I'm somewhat confused. Is Matador making him use his real name :unsure:

What's in a name? ^_^

[obstaclespecialist]

elfyz, on 18 April 2012 - 06:31 PM, said:

What's in a name? ^_^

Well, he said in the Fat Magazine interview that Plenti was his porn name. :blush:

[visualinfidelity]

Ok, can Banks get anymore brilliant?! Last line of the Julian Plenti Flaunt article... check this out.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2pjq4OJOG1r308jp.jpg

[EtoileMaris]

Bought the EP. :) :ph34r:

And yes, he's brilliant. No doubt.

[obstaclespecialist]

But if he was going to do so many covers on this EP, why not the Horse With No Name or Cowgirl in the Sand covers? Those were so great. And it would make sense for the EP cover art
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2plamIRhE1qfyule.jpg
I see horses and I see sand. :P
But I can't argue with Sinatra.

[tercat]

Personally, I like that he's doing a lot of different covers. There are live recordings of those other covers, right? So much variety... very different from what he's able to do with Interpol.

Don't freak out about the 5-song ep. There's a whole LP coming, and I'm guessing that will include more original material. It's great that he's releasing a whole ep and not just a single.

[Ely]

here too
http://pitchfork.com...release-new-ep/

and yaay :)

[rose_mary]

Ely, on 19 April 2012 - 03:38 PM, said:

here too
http://pitchfork.com...release-new-ep/

and yaay :)

YAY YAY YAY :)

[Ely]

rose_mary, on 19 April 2012 - 11:38 AM, said:

YAY YAY YAY :)

Tour soon please!!

I was about to pre-order the EP on the Matador site then realised they'd charge me twice the price of the vynil for the shipping fee. I'm going to wait till I can pre-order it from a UK site

[rose_mary]

Ely, on 19 April 2012 - 08:03 PM, said:

Tour soon please!!

I was about to pre-order the EP on the Matador site then realised they'd charge me twice the price of the vynil for the shipping fee. I'm going to wait till I can pre-order it from a UK site

Yes, a tour where we all reunite :) I did order the vinyl, could not resist http://www.interpolnyc.com/forum//public/style_emoticons/default/blush.gif

[Gehain]

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u127/gehain2/jp.png