The Fat Angel Sings

Interpol are releasing a new album, “This Mirror Weighs a Ton“, on August 28th via Partisan. Now they have shared its third single, “Iron City.”

Previously Interpol shared the album’s first two tracks, title track “This Mirror Weighs a Ton” and “See Out Loud.” “This Mirror Weighs a Ton” is Interpol’s first for Partisan after previously being on Matador Records for much of their career.

Interpol’s core members are Daniel Kessler, Paul Banks, and Sam Fogarino. “This Mirror Weighs a Ton” is the band’s eighth album, and the follow up 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.

Of working with Interpol, Wyatt says in a press release: “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.”

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.