Indie gloomsters Interpol are currently on sabbatical.

Frontman Paul Banks has evidently been using the time productively. The Essex-born musician is about to release a new five-track EP under his weirdo Julian Plenti moniker. Julian Plenti Lives… is due on June 12, and contains a glut of oddball covers.

J Dilla’s ‘Mythsysizer’ is queerest of the bunch. The original appeared on Dilla’s 2009 release Jay Stay Paid, and features snippets of Busta Rhymes – who knows what it’ll sound like pumped through Banks’ baleful voicebox. Frank Sinatra and Harold Faltermeyer are also getting Plenti’d. Two Banks originals round out the tracklist.

Julian Plenti Lives… is due on June 12, courtesy of Matador

Tracklist:
1. Perimeter Deactivated
2. Summertime Is Coming
3. Mythsysizer
4. I’m a Fool to Want You
5. Cavern Worship