The Other Side Of Make-Believe
by Interpol
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The Other Side Of Make-Believe is ranked 7th best out of 10 albums by Interpol on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Interpol is Turn On The Bright Lights which is ranked number 89 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 12,891.
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The Other Side Of Make-Believe track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 4 days ago | Exist-en-ciel | 14,759 | 70/100 |
| ! | 06/30/2026 08:55 | DrTchock97 | 735 | 76/100 |
| ! | 05/26/2026 16:27 |  swed | 1,214 | 80/100 |
| ! | 09/14/2025 03:56 |  identifer | 974 | 82/100 |
| ! | 07/19/2025 22:34 | rfowler | 443 | 85/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.4/100, a mean average of 65.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 65.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.0.
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Strangel 11/24/2022 02:28 | #291524
It’s Interpol. You know what you’re going to get now. I’m searching this new release for a standout track but nothing’s rising above the sludge. The sludge is generally the sort of sludge you can bury yourself in though, I’ll give it that.
HoldenM 11/21/2022 08:36 | #291455
Easily Interpol's weakest album, at least in a while, but it's not for lack of ideas. That said, the album is best when it sounds like Turn on the Bright Lights or Antics, leaning hard into space and atmosphere. But even then, the strongest cuts here struggle to go toe-to-toe with even the middling tracks on previous records.
Interpol have settled more comfortably into their sound; The Other Side Of Make-Believe is just as boring as Marauder, but it sounds like their having fun with it this time around. While they've given up on making anything that could be described as art, there is some fun to be had in the fresher, lighter sound of this new release - at least this time around it sounds like all the members of the band like each other.
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