The Paranoid Style The Interrogator

From the Dolls-meets-the-devil opening title track to thedesperate Sister Lovers-adjacent finale "The Findings," TheInterrogator is thirteen vibrant, crackling, scary and hilarious songs which taken together represent nothing less than a thorough and thrilling moral inventory of our decadentand depraved times. Following up and doubling down on the themes of last year's lionized cult favorite For ExecutiveMeeting, 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 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, Elizabeth 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.