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Interpol Announce New Album, Share 'The Rover'

Interpol will release <em>Marauder</em> on August 24.
Jamie James Medina
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Interpol will release Marauder on August 24.

If you're a band in 2018, you can't just tell the world you're putting out an album. You have to hire skywriters, or etch your new cover art onto the side of a mountain, or fly journalists out to Wyoming for a live-stream or something. You have to make it an event!

So if you just want to know that Interpol is putting out a new album, here are the basics for squares: It's called Marauder, it's out Aug. 24, the first single is called "The Rover" (listen here), and the whole shebang will be produced by Dave Fridmann, who's worked with bands like The Flaming Lips.

Now, if you're cool, you already know about the mural the band unveiled this morning in Mexico City; that's got the album artwork. Maybe you're even , held at Mexico City's General Prim 30 and attended by Mexican media and fans. Maybe you're in Mexico City right now, though you'd be forgiven for merely watching via the band's .

All of this is way better than merely knowing something exists, right? Now, get to listening as instructed!

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Stephen Thompson is a writer, editor and reviewer for NPR Music, where he speaks into any microphone that will have him and appears as a frequent panelist on All Songs Considered. Since 2010, Thompson has been a fixture on the NPR roundtable podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which he created and developed with NPR correspondent Linda Holmes. In 2008, he and Bob Boilen created the NPR Music video series Tiny Desk Concerts, in which musicians perform at Boilen's desk. (To be more specific, Thompson had the idea, which took seconds, while Boilen created the series, which took years. Thompson will insist upon equal billing until the day he dies.)