The Interrogator

Released February 2nd, 2024 on Bar/None. 13 songs over 41 brash, hilarious, terrifying  and poignant minutes, The Interrogator sounds something like Elvis Costello's mid-career masterpiece Blood & Chocolate as reimagined by Eliminator-era ZZ Top. Laced with malign landlords, nighttime debauchery, tedious group chats, banana splits and felony murder, no single album of 2024 will better capture the hectic, nervous, dislocating, end-of-Democracy-precipice that is our exhilarating brief. Glam rock for the end times. 

"Packed with wordplay, jokes and an undercurrent of serious dread." — Ken Tucker, Fresh Air, NPR

“Bristling with rockabilly shuffles, refurbished Bo Diddley bops, and post-punk rave-ups, The Interrogator has an industrial-strength swing to match the steely glint in its production.” — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Pitchfork

“The Paranoid Style motorvate down the same sonic expressway to your heart that Chuck Berry built and followers like Dave Edmunds sped down to such effect." — Charles Hughes, No Fences Review

“Imbued with brilliance throughout, The Interrogator is the band’s best album yet.” — Joseph Neff, The Vinyl District

“The Interrogator sounds like manna from heaven for a certain type of rock & roll fan – specifically those that prefer their riffs ‘n’ grooves to be accompanied by a barrage of smart, pointed, funny lyrics.” — Michael Toland, The Big Takeover

“Elizabeth Nelson is a frontperson unafraid of telling the listener exactly what is what, while helping themself to a Pall Mall from the pack in the listener’s shirt chest pocket.” — Zachary Lipez, Abundant Living 

THE INTERROGATOR, by the Paranoid Style: Best album I've heard in a long time. — Stephen King