On song: Paul Banks of Interpol

It’s been a long time since the last album – four years?

Well, about 15 months of it were touring with album four, then we took about a year off. I recorded and toured a record, so did Sam [Fogarino, drums]. We got together in August 2013 and wrote for about a year, then we tracked last fall, and now, here we are. It wasn’t really planned – it just all ...