Interpol release new album This Mirror Weighs A Ton

Interpol have released their new album, This Mirror Weighs A Ton, arriving almost 24 years to the day after their 2002 debut, Turn On The Bright Lights. It is the band's first record in four years, their debut for Partisan Records, and the first album they have recorded in their original Manhattan home base in over a decade.

The 11-track record was produced by Andrew Wyatt, known for his work with Rosalía and Charli XCX, and mixed by David Fridmann. Clash's review called the title track "one of the best Interpol tracks in years," pointing to Paul Banks' line "the maniac in your head still sleeps in archways" as a standout moment of the band's longtime knack for painting cityscapes in song.

Elsewhere on the record, guitarist Daniel Kessler takes his first significant lead vocal turn since the band's debut on "See Out Loud," while "Wounded Soldier" and "Wake Up" push into more confrontational territory. Not every track lands, the review noted, singling out "So Rides the Reindeer" as a rare misstep, but called the album's overall architecture a return to form.

The record follows a run that included a show before roughly 200,000 people in Mexico City in 2024, and its writing process traced back to that return to their New York roots. Clash gave This Mirror Weighs A Ton an 8 out of 10, calling it "a fantastic return that often captures the genius of their best work."

Interpol have long been counted among the defining bands of the early-2000s New York rock revival, and the new album lands as the band's latest addition to the release calendar this year.