The Paranoid Style - The Interrogator

Bar/None Records

£26.08

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: BRN305LP
Barcode: 0032862030512
Release Date: 02 Feb 2024
Genre: Alternative

From the Dolls-meets-the-devil opening title track to the desperate Sister Lovers-adjacent finale "The Findings," The Interrogator is thirteen vibrant, crackling, scary and hilarious songs which taken together represent nothing less than a thorough and thrilling moral inventory of our decadent and depraved times. Following up and doubling down on the themes of last year's lionized cult favorite For Executive Meeting, Elizabeth Nelson has authored an album as politically potent and pointedly hilarious as antecedents like The Mekons' Rock 'n' Roll and Neil Young's on On the Beach and wed it to the sound of ZZ Top's Eliminator. As writers like Rob Sheffield and Robert Christgau have known for years Elizbeth Nelson has been one of our very best songwriters for going on a decade. On the charged anthem "Bad Day for the Group Chat" she reassesses the current state of affairs: "I have bested all my peers." “Elizabeth Nelson showcases the simultaneously fraught and giddy frequency of our weird, wired world. The Paranoid Style may be the bearer of bad news, but at least the band bears it smashingly.” NPR // “You’ll forgive them for being critic’s darlings because they’re also the goddamn life of the party.” SPIN // Features performances by Peter Holsapple of The dB’s, Continental Drifters & REM through out. Elizabeth Nelson writes for the Oxford American, N.Y. Times, Pitchfork, The Ringer and more. She has over 15,000 followers on Twitter. Also Available From The Paranoid Style: For Executive Meeting.

Tracks: 01 The Interrogator 02 I Love The Sound Of Structured Class 03 The Ballad Of Pertinent Information (Turn It On) 04 Last Night In Chickentown 05 The Return Of The Molly Maguires 06 Client States 07 Styles Make Fights 08 Are You Loathsome Tonight 09 Bad Day For The Group Chat 10 That Drop Is Steep 11 The Formal 12 Print The Legend 13 The Findings