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Jun 09, 2026 By Mark Redfern Photography by Eliot Lee Hazel

Interpol have announced a new album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, and shared its first two tracks, title track “This Mirror Weighs a Ton” and “See Out Loud.” This Mirror Weighs a Ton is due out August 28 via Partisan, their first for the label after previously being on Matador for much of their career. Check out lyric videos for the two songs below, followed by the album details and the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Interpol’s core members are Daniel Kessler, Paul Banks, and Sam Fogarino. This Mirror Weighs a Ton is the band’s eighth album, the followup to 2022’s The Other Side of Make-Believe, 2019’s A Fine Mess EP, and 2018’s Marauder full-length.

Andrew Wyatt (ROSALÍA, Charli xcx) produced the album, recording it in his studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. David Fridmann (Sleater-Kinney, MGMT) mixed the album. The album cover features an artwork by Addie Wagenknecht, which is currently held in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s permanent collection. “This Mirror Weighs a Ton” is the first Interpol song since “PDA,” from their 2002 debut album Turn On the Bright Lights, to feature vocals from Kessler.

“I was right next to Andrew when he started doing these incredible things with the sound design, and it was just so exciting,” Kessler says of the title song, in a press release. “I remember thinking, I don’t have context for what kind of music this is—these big crashes happening before Paul even had a vocal. Logic would have said maybe this is an instrumental. Then Paul just got up, went into the back room and started singing those melodies—and suddenly it was clearly not going to be.”

Of working with Interpol, Wyatt says: “I wondered what it would be like to keep the parts perfectly legible, because everyone in that band writes such great parts. And to add some different spatial dimensions to it.” Wyatt says. “It was something almost a little bit more like chamber music—the musical ideas bear scrutiny without needing the sonic treatment of it to carry all the weight. It was also nice to add a trick or two I picked up over a couple decades of making pop records.”

Read our 2018 interview with Interpol on Marauder.

In 2020 Interpol frontman Paul Banks released an album with Muzz, a band that also featured Matt Barrick of The Walkmen and Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman. Their self-titled debut album came out in 2020 via Matador. Read our 2020 interview with Muzz about their debut album.

This Mirror Weighs a Ton Tracklist:

1. This Mirror Weighs a Ton
2. See Out Loud
3. Iron City
4. Wounded Soldier
5. Wings On Fire
6. Ever The Actor
7. So Rides The Reindeer
8. Darling Thoughts
9. Wake Up
10. Enemy
11. Bird and The Serpent
12. Sudden

Interpol 2026 North America Tour Dates:

7/31/26 – Mission Ballroom – Denver, CO %
8/2/26 – Snow King Mountain – Jackson Hole, WY %
8/3/26 – Revolution Concert House – Boise, ID %
8/4/26 – Red Butte Garden – Salt Lake City, UT %
8/6/26 – McMenamins Edgefield – Portland, OR ^
8/8/26 – Dune Peninsula – Tacoma, WA ^
8/11/26 – The Warfield – San Francisco, CA &
8/14/26 – Santa Barbara Bowl – Santa Barbara, CA &
8/15/26 – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park – San Diego, CA &
8/16/26 – The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas – Las Vegas, NV &
9/26/26 – CBGB Festival - Under The K Bridge – Brooklyn, NY
9/29/26 – Rogers Arena – Vancouver, BC *
10/2/26 – The Bowl at Sobeys Stadium – Toronto, ON #
10/3/26 – L’Olympia – Montreal, QC #
10/4/26 – Roadrunner – Boston, MA #
10/6/26 – Stage AE – Pittsburgh, PA #
10/7/26 – The Agora – Cleveland, OH #
10/9/26 – Masonic Jack White Theatre – Detroit, MI #
10/10/26 – KEMBA Live! Outdoors – Columbus, OH #
10/11/26 – The Salt Shed Fairgrounds – Chicago, IL #
10/13/26 – The Factory – St. Louis, MO #
10/15/26 - The Eastern – Atlanta, GA # (2ND SHOW ADDED)
10/16/26 – The Eastern – Atlanta, GA #
10/17/26 – The Pinnacle – Nashville, TN # ~

* supporting SOMBR
% support from Youth Lagoon
^ support from Loathe
& support from julie
# support from DIIV
~ support from French Police

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