Interpol Return With 'This Mirror Weighs a Ton': A New Label, a New Bassist and a Latin American Tour in the Works

Interpol released their seventh studio album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, on digital platforms on Friday, August 28 via Partisan Records — the band's first release on the label and their first collection of original songs in four years (Billboard).

The 12-song record follows 2022's The Other Side of Make-Believe and marks a shift behind the scenes as well as on the sleeve. Andrew Wyatt, whose credits span pop production and film-score work, produced the album and composed much of its string arrangements and orchestrations. Recording took place at Wyatt Studio in Manhattan, and mixing was handled by David Fridmann, the veteran engineer known for his work with The Flaming Lips and Tame Impala (Billboard).

The album also formalises a lineup change. Brad Truax, who had been playing bass with the band, was officially integrated as Interpol's new bass player and wrote the bass lines on This Mirror Weighs a Ton for the first time — meaning this is the first record where he is credited as a writing member rather than a touring musician (Billboard).

Frontman Paul Banks's connection to Latin America runs deeper than a typical tour stop. He lived and studied in Mexico at 17 and considers the country his second home. In 2005, he returned to Mexico City to perform at the Salón Mexica in the city's World Trade Center before roughly 7,000 people. Two decades later, Interpol's 2024 performance at the Zócalo — Mexico City's central plaza — was the most massive show of the band's career to date (Billboard).

That relationship is set to continue. Banks confirmed that Latin America will be included in the promotional tour for This Mirror Weighs a Ton, with specific plans for shows in Mexico (Billboard). The band has also scheduled performances at Aviva Studios in Manchester, UK, on November 23–24, 2026 (Interpol's official site).

The album includes a song titled 'Iron City', for which a music video has been released (Interpol's official site). The record was announced on June 9, 2026 (Red Light Management).

Partisan Records, an independent label whose roster includes IDLES and Fontaines D.C., now adds Interpol to its catalogue — a pairing that places a band with more than two decades of major-label history on an indie footing. Banks, who has also released solo material under the moniker Julian Plenti (Rolling Stone), has periodically spoken of the band reinventing itself with each cycle. This one comes with a new label, a new bassist writing for the first time, and a producer whose string and orchestral work gives the record a different textural palette.

For fans, that means the first new Interpol songs since 2022 arrive with several moving parts changed at once — not just a new album, but a reshaped band.