Interpol’s This – Interpol has announced its eighth studio album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, arriving August 28 via Partisan Records. Ahead of the release, the band shared the slow-burning title track and “See Out Loud,” the guitarist Daniel Kessler’s first vocal since “PDA.” Th
By the time Interpol gets to the last note of “See Out Loud. ” you can feel what the band was chasing—clarity without losing weight. The New York band has now confirmed the next chapter: its eighth studio album. This Mirror Weighs a Ton. arrives August 28. and it’s the group’s debut release with Partisan Records.
It’s also the follow-up to 2022’s The Other Side of Make-Believe. Two songs have already been shared from the new record: the slow-burning title track and “See Out Loud.” The latter matters for more than its mood. “See Out Loud” features guitarist Daniel Kessler’s first vocal since Turn on the Bright Lights’ “PDA.”.
The sound of the album was built in Andrew Wyatt’s downtown Manhattan studio, where it was recorded. Dave Fridmann mixed the record. The cover artwork is by Addie Wagenknecht—an artwork currently held in the Whitney’s permanent collection.
Wyatt described the approach in a press release. saying he 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.” He compared the process to chamber music. adding that “the musical ideas bear scrutiny without needing the sonic treatment of it to carry all the weight.” Wyatt also said he was “nice to add a trick or two I picked up over a couple decades of making pop records.”.
Kessler, meanwhile, recalled the moment the record began to take its final shape. He said he was “right next to Andrew when he started doing these incredible things with the sound design. ” calling it exciting. Kessler described not having “context for what kind of music this is. ” pointing to “big crashes happening before Paul even had a vocal.” He said “Logic would have said maybe this is an instrumental. ” until Paul started singing—“and suddenly it was clearly not going to be.”.
The songs arriving with the album are listed as follows: “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,” and “Sudden.”
Interpol’s new songs are already set loose online, but This Mirror Weighs a Ton still holds its real deadline in plain sight: August 28.
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Interpol still got it. August 28 can’t come fast enough.
Wait so the new album is called This Mirror Weighs a Ton but they only released like 2 songs? Sounds like clickbait honestly. I’ll check it out tho.
I guess Daniel Kessler is singing again? I thought Paul was doing all the vocals forever. Also “clarity without losing weight” makes no sense to me but I like the vibe of it.
So it says the cover artwork is in the Whitney’s permanent collection… does that mean the band is literally being added to museums now? Kinda weird either way. Also “Logic would have said maybe this is an instrumental” like… who cares what logic says, just put the song out lol. I’ll probably still listen even if I don’t understand the whole chamber music thing.