Interpol detail new album This Mirror Weighs a Ton and share two of its opening tracks

10 June 2026, 15:21 | Updated: 10 June 2026, 15:34

Interpol 2026 press image — Interpol have announced their eighth studio album. Picture: Eliot Lee Hazel

By Jenny Mensah

The NYC indie icons have announced their first studio album in four years, shared the first cuts to be taken from the record and confirmed UK & EU arena dates for 2026.

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Interpol have announced their new album This Mirror Weighs A Ton.

The record - which marks the band's first studio effort in four years and is their debut release on Partisan Records - is set to arrive on 28th August 2026.

So far the band have previewed two songs from the record, its title track and album opener as well as its Interpol-esque follow-up See It Out Loud.

Watch the official lyric video for See Out Loud below:

Interpol - See Out Loud (Official Lyric Video)

Listen to the album's title track below:

Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton (Official Visualizer)

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Produced by Andrew Wyatt and mixed by David Fridmann, This Mirror Weighs a Ton sees the band expand their sonic palette with strings, woodwinds, layered vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar and experimental sound design.

Created in Wyatt's studio on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it also marks the band's first time making an album in their home base of New York in over a decade.

According to a press release, the album's title came from frontman Paul Banks' "improvisational vocal process, where melodies and phrases develop simultaneously".

The record itself sees themes of reflection, perception and emotional tension come up throughout and its artwork features a work by Addie Wagenknecht currently held in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s permanent collection.

See the artwork and tracklisting for This Mirror Weighs a Ton below:

The album artwork for Interpol 's This Mirror Weighs a Ton. Picture: Press

This Mirror Weighs a Ton Tracklist:

This Mirror Weighs a Ton
See Out Loud
Iron City
Wounded Soldier
Wings On Fire
Ever The Actor
So Rides The Reindeer
Darling Thoughts
Wake Up
Enemy
Bird and The Serpent
Sudden

Interpol will play the Outbreak Fest at All Points East on 23rd August alongside Deftones, Idles and Amyl & The Sniffers and will return to the UK & EU later in the year for a run of 18 co-headline dates with Bloc Party.

The tour begins in Copenhagen on 10th November at the Royal Arena, before heading through Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam, and reaching the UK on 20th November for a first show at Birmingham’s Utilita Arena.

Their run run continues with dates in Cardiff, Sheffield, Dublin and Glasgow, alongside two nights in Manchester and Brighton, before culminating with two huge closing shows at London’s Olympia on 4th and 5th December.

See the full details below.