Paul Banks braved Hurricane Sandy to perform ‘Young Again’ on the Late Show with David Letter to no audience!

Paul Banks Banks is out now via Matador/Rhytmethod

Paul Banks goes back to school in his youthful new clip for ‘Young Again’.

Check out the clip to see him mercilessly rejected and defeated by children until you get to the dodgeball scene.

Paul Banks Banks is out now via Matador/Rhythmethod

“This batch of songs are all new and were written over the last couple of years with the exception of ‘Summertime Is Coming’, which also dates back to that Julian Plenti period. That’s why I put it on the Julian Plenti Lives… EP. Basically, when I was on the road with Interpol for the last two years I took my laptop and any free time or downtime I had was spent working on music. That’s fun for me, and I guess what I was trying to say is that I’ve always written music. It’s just that nobody ever got to hear any of it until I finally came to put out that first record, and now it’s like a retrospective of all the music I’ve been writing from the previous ten years. So basically, from that record it was like a nirvana, that was the gates opening, and now I’ll always make records. It was just a matter of doing that first one.”

Paul Banks Banks is out now via Matador/Rhythmethod.

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Paul Banks will release his new album Banks on October 19 via Matador/Rhythmethod. Paul ditches the Julian Plenti alter-ego, and the resulting 10-song album is a tour-de- force of exhilarating minor-key intensity.

Download the track ‘The Base’ below:

Interpol frontman Paul Banks new 5-track EP Julian Plenti Lives… is out today via Matador/Rhythmethod, ahead of an album due later in the year.

Available digitally, the EP was released on a limited edition run of CD & vinyl copies and marks the first time Paul Banks has chosen to use his own name to release music by.

The Julian Plenti Lives… EP centres around the new original track ‘Summertime is Coming’ plus original instrumental ‘Cavern Worship’ and cover versions of J Dilla, Frank Sinatra and The Running Man movie theme (by composer Harold Faltermeyer), which demonstrate the breadth of Paul’s influences.

A free download of one of the tracks ‘Summertime is Coming’ is available here.

Track-listing:

‘Perimeter Deactivated’  (The Running Man theme cover - Harold Faltermeyer)
‘Summertime is Coming’ (Original)
‘Mythsysizer’  (J Dilla cover)
‘Fool To Want You’ (Frank Sinatra cover)
‘Cavern Worship’ (Original, instrumental)

Paul Banks Julian Plenti Lives… is out now via Matador/Rhythmethod.