Interpol have announced their eighth studio album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton. Arriving on August 28, the follow-up to 2022’s The Other Side of Make-Believe marks their debut release with Partisan Records. The band has also shared two songs from the album, the slow-burning title track and ‘See Out Loud’, the latter of which features guitarist Daniel Kessler’s first vocal since Turn on the Bright Lights‘ ‘PDA’. Take a listen below.
This Mirror Weighs a Ton was recorded with producer Andrew Wyatt at his downtown Manhattan studio. Dave Fridmann mixed the album, whose cover artwork features an Addie Wagenknecht piece currently held in the Whitney’s permanent collection.
“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 said in a press release. “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.”
Kessler commented, “I was right next to Andrew when he started doing these incredible things with the sound design, and it was just so exciting. 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.”
This Mirror Weighs a Ton Cover Artwork:
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
