Toni (Interpol song)
"Toni" is a song by American rock band Interpol, released in 2022 as the lead single from their seventh studio album, The Other Side of Make-Believe. First teased in January 2022, the song released with a music video directed by Van Alpert on April 7, 2022. A remix of "Toni" by Jesu was released on June 15, 2023, as the third single from Interpol's Interpolations remix album.
The single's artwork is a black-and-white edit of the first ever photo of the interaction of two supersonic shockwaves in flight, taken by NASA.
Composition and lyrics
"Toni" is centered around a piano motif written by guitarist Daniel Kessler. Frontman Paul Banks said of the song:In their review for The Other Side of Make-Believe, Pitchfork described "Toni" as "the heretofore-inconceivable “Interpol California song,” swapping ambient synth washes for a plinking piano, slacking the eighth-note grid just the tiniest bit, allowing Banks’ voice to relax into a world-weary but satisfied tone."