{"id":2115292,"date":"2026-08-27T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2115292"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:00:24","slug":"interpol-this-mirror-weighs-a-ton-review-existential-anthems-and-their-best-since-antics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2115292","title":{"rendered":"Interpol \u2013 \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019 review: existential anthems and their best since \u2018Antics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/interpol_mirror_ton_2000.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"template-id-3332206\" class=\"post-3332206 tdb_templates type-tdb_templates status-publish post\">\n<div id=\"tdi_65\" class=\"tdc-zone\">\n<div class=\"tdc_zone tdi_66  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div id=\"tdi_67\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row_1400 td-stretch-content\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_68  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_70  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_71 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"696\" height=\"442\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/interpol_mirror_ton_2000-696x442.jpg\" alt=\"Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel\" title=\"Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel\"><figcaption class=\"tdb-caption-text\">Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_72\" class=\"tdc-row stretch_row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_73  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_75  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_breadcrumbs tdi_76 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-breadcrumbs \" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_76\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span>Reviews<\/span><span>Album Reviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_title tdi_77 tdb-single-title td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_77\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Interpol \u2013 \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019 review: existential anthems and their best since \u2018Antics\u2019<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_78 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The NYC gloom-mongers up their game to examine themselves and the world for the unifying and experimental album number eight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_review_overall tdi_79 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<table class=\"td-review td-fix-index\">\n<tr class=\"td-review-footer rate_stars\">\n<td class=\"td-review-score\">\n<div class=\"td-review-overall\">\n<div class=\"td-review-final-score\">4.5<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_80 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_80\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> Andrew Trendell<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_81 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_81\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2026-08-27T09:00:24+01:00\">27th August 2026<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_82\" class=\"tdc-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_83  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_85  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_86 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>A chandelier of CCTV cameras hangs down from the cover of Interpol\u2019s eighth album, a portrait of both the band\u2019s DNA and of this record. Their sound has always been one of elegance, but coloured by the gloom of a very urban modernity. On \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019, the New York indie heroes are feeling watched by the modern world, while also reflecting on their own worth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Interpol tell us about new album \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019: \u201cWe just felt, \u2018Let\u2019s make this one count\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are generally more eyes on Interpol in 2026. Their new record label Partisan (also home to IDLES, Geese and PJ Harvey) reports that more than half of the band\u2019s 2.5million monthly Spotify listeners are under the age of 35. It\u2019s a rare feat for a band of their vintage to have a following beyond 6 Music dads, but there\u2019s a new generation taking up front rows of gigs, devouring their pristine tailored aesthetic, discovering the scene-defining \u2018Turn On The Bright Lights\u2019 and \u2018Antics\u2019 as the modern-day classics they are, and turning sleeper hits like \u2018Rest My Chemistry\u2019 into actual hits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>After 2022\u2019s esoteric and textured \u2018The Other Side Of Make-Believe\u2019 was written with the band apart during lockdown, they yearned to make something more live and physical, to be \u201cloud in a room together\u201d, as frontman Paul Banks told <em>NME<\/em>. Adding to this overall compulsion, \u2018This Mirror\u2026\u2019 marks their first album to be recorded in their native NYC in over a decade. Assisted by producer Andrew Wyatt (formerly of Miike Snow and now behind huge records by Liam Gallagher,\u00a0Rosal\u00eda and Charli XCX) and with longtime touring member Brad Truax stepping in to write basslines with the kind of purpose missing from the lower end of their sound since the departure of the vampiric Carlos D in 2011, you can see they laid the table for their vow of: \u201cLet\u2019s make this one count\u201d.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interpol - See Out Loud (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoQ5f1lYmLM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>The title track is to be filed alongside \u2018Untitled\u2019, \u2018Next Exit\u2019 and \u2018Pioneer To The Falls\u2019 in their lineage of excellent cinematic openers. Banks, with some heavenly backing vocals from his wife Juliet Seger, sings of the heavy burden of having a word with yourself above a hypnotic Massive Attack-esque nocturnal groove to create a huge sense of space. Then fellow lead single \u2018See Out Loud\u2019 fills it with that classic Interpol post-punk propulsion as the singer gets lost looking for escape in the abandon of a very, very late night (\u201c<em>I start to feel pixelated as we get buried in the sound<\/em>\u201d). Adding to the tension is a criminally rare vocal from guitarist Daniel Kessler to beg the question: \u201c<em>I\u2019m not impatient, but when do we play?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The album is front-loaded for impact, as the skittering sonic landscape of \u2018Iron City\u2019 sees \u201c<em>thoughts invaded, memories degraded<\/em>\u201d by AI overlords, before \u201c<em>dreams of violenc<\/em>e\u201d from constant war coverage take over in the slow-burning but locked-in \u2018Wounded Soldier\u2019, and surefire future single \u2018Wings On Fire\u2019 proves an anxiety-driven, arena-shaking banger to \u201c<em>find out who you are<\/em>\u201d in a timeline of chaos. The wide-open orchestral sky of \u2018Ever The Actor\u2019 clears the horizon for shit to get really weird on the flipside.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3964743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3964743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3964743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/interpol_mirror_ton_2.jpg\" alt=\"Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3964743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018So Rides The Reindeer\u2019\u2019s mesh of Missy Elliot beats, handclaps and bittersweet acoustic guitar make for something more akin to Gorillaz but a welcome first of an Interpol record as Banks matches the fever dream (\u201c<em>Up is down, tonight we drown<\/em>\u201d) ahead of drummer Sam Fogarino showing off his undersung flair on the Truax bass earworm of \u2018Darling Thoughts\u2019 and the Talking Heads carnival rhythms and the scratchy funk on \u2018Wake Up\u2019, taking things to a more hedonistic high. Interpol having fun? You heard it here first folks, but it doesn\u2019t last long as Kessler lays down some tender piano for the spacey devotional hymn \u2018Enemy\u2019, with shadows of Nick Cave and \u2018Amnesiac\u2019-era Radiohead.<\/p>\n<p>Banks described \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019 to <em>NME<\/em> as a \u201cno-skips\u201d album. It definitely bears riding it through for the whole journey of Interpol\u2019s sonic past, present and future laid out, marking their most unified yet experimental effort in years and arguably their most consistent and satisfying since \u2018Antics\u2019. The drive of the record, we are told is \u201ca spirit of striving for elation, enlightenment and clarity\u201d. Mission accomplished. As we close on the sparse beauty of \u2018Sudden\u2019 the frontman concludes: \u201c<em>I was born uncertain, that\u2019s what keeps me intact<\/em>\u201d. A fitting end for Interpol\u2019s most human and personal record to date, one that accepts constant change.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3810046 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Interpol_TMWT_Cover_F_RGB-1.jpg\" alt=\"Interpol \u2013 &apos;This Mirror Weighs A Ton&apos;\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> August 28, 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Label:<\/strong> Partisan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_tags tdi_87 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_2\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<ul class=\"tdb-tags\">\n<li><span>Related Topics<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Indie<\/li>\n<li>Interpol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tdi_88\" class=\"tdc-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_row tdi_89  wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column tdi_91  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"vc_row_inner tdi_93  vc_row vc_inner wpb_row td-pb-row\">\n<div class=\"vc_column_inner tdi_95  wpb_column vc_column_container tdc-inner-column td-pb-span12\">\n<div class=\"vc_column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper td_block_wrap vc_raw_html tdi_97 \">\n<div class=\"td-fix-index\">\n<h3>More Stories<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap td_flex_block_1 tdi_98 td-pb-border-top td_module_flex_1--card td_module_flex_1--card--highlight td_block_template_2 tdc-no-posts td_flex_block\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_98\">\n<div id=\"tdi_98\" class=\"td_block_inner td-mc1-wrap\">\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-above\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Starsailor announce 25th anniversary reissue of \u2018Love Is Here\u2019<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-above\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Noel Gallagher is currently \u201cwriting songs for fun\u201d, says Johnny Marr<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-above\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Reading 2026: Jamie T confirmed for surprise secret \u201c33 minute 10 second\u201d set<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-above\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Maribou State announce hiatus \u201cto reset physically and mentally\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-above\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Tom A Smith, Gans, The Slow Readers Club lead second wave of artists for Manchester\u2019s Beyond The Music 2026 line-up<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_module_flex td_module_flex_1 td_module_wrap td-animation-stack\">\n<div class=\"td-module-container td-category-pos-above\">\n<div class=\"td-module-meta-info\">\n                    Music News<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title td-module-title\">Reading &amp; 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Their sound has always been one of elegance, but coloured by the gloom of a very urban modernity. On \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019, the New York indie heroes are feeling watched by the modern world, while also reflecting on their own worth.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: Interpol tell us about new album \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019: \u201cWe just felt, \u2018Let\u2019s make this one count\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are generally more eyes on Interpol in 2026. Their new record label Partisan (also home to IDLES, Geese and PJ Harvey) reports that more than half of the band\u2019s 2.5million monthly Spotify listeners are under the age of 35. It\u2019s a rare feat for a band of their vintage to have a following beyond 6 Music dads, but there\u2019s a new generation taking up front rows of gigs, devouring their pristine tailored aesthetic, discovering the scene-defining \u2018Turn On The Bright Lights\u2019 and \u2018Antics\u2019 as the modern-day classics they are, and turning sleeper hits like \u2018Rest My Chemistry\u2019 into actual hits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad0 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>After 2022\u2019s esoteric and textured \u2018The Other Side Of Make-Believe\u2019 was written with the band apart during lockdown, they yearned to make something more live and physical, to be \u201cloud in a room together\u201d, as frontman Paul Banks told <em>NME<\/em>. Adding to this overall compulsion, \u2018This Mirror\u2026\u2019 marks their first album to be recorded in their native NYC in over a decade. Assisted by producer Andrew Wyatt (formerly of Miike Snow and now behind huge records by Liam Gallagher,\u00a0Rosal\u00eda and Charli XCX) and with longtime touring member Brad Truax stepping in to write basslines with the kind of purpose missing from the lower end of their sound since the departure of the vampiric Carlos D in 2011, you can see they laid the table for their vow of: \u201cLet\u2019s make this one count\u201d.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Interpol - See Out Loud (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GoQ5f1lYmLM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>The title track is to be filed alongside \u2018Untitled\u2019, \u2018Next Exit\u2019 and \u2018Pioneer To The Falls\u2019 in their lineage of excellent cinematic openers. Banks, with some heavenly backing vocals from his wife Juliet Seger, sings of the heavy burden of having a word with yourself above a hypnotic Massive Attack-esque nocturnal groove to create a huge sense of space. Then fellow lead single \u2018See Out Loud\u2019 fills it with that classic Interpol post-punk propulsion as the singer gets lost looking for escape in the abandon of a very, very late night (\u201c<em>I start to feel pixelated as we get buried in the sound<\/em>\u201d). Adding to the tension is a criminally rare vocal from guitarist Daniel Kessler to beg the question: \u201c<em>I\u2019m not impatient, but when do we play?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The album is front-loaded for impact, as the skittering sonic landscape of \u2018Iron City\u2019 sees \u201c<em>thoughts invaded, memories degraded<\/em>\u201d by AI overlords, before \u201c<em>dreams of violenc<\/em>e\u201d from constant war coverage take over in the slow-burning but locked-in \u2018Wounded Soldier\u2019, and surefire future single \u2018Wings On Fire\u2019 proves an anxiety-driven, arena-shaking banger to \u201c<em>find out who you are<\/em>\u201d in a timeline of chaos. The wide-open orchestral sky of \u2018Ever The Actor\u2019 clears the horizon for shit to get really weird on the flipside.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3964743\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3964743\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3964743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/interpol_mirror_ton_2.jpg\" alt=\"Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1270\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3964743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interpol, 2026. Credit: Eliot Lee Hazel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\">\n<h5 class=\"taboola-mid-article-title\">Recommended<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2018So Rides The Reindeer\u2019\u2019s mesh of Missy Elliot beats, handclaps and bittersweet acoustic guitar make for something more akin to Gorillaz but a welcome first of an Interpol record as Banks matches the fever dream (\u201c<em>Up is down, tonight we drown<\/em>\u201d) ahead of drummer Sam Fogarino showing off his undersung flair on the Truax bass earworm of \u2018Darling Thoughts\u2019 and the Talking Heads carnival rhythms and the scratchy funk on \u2018Wake Up\u2019, taking things to a more hedonistic high. Interpol having fun? You heard it here first folks, but it doesn\u2019t last long as Kessler lays down some tender piano for the spacey devotional hymn \u2018Enemy\u2019, with shadows of Nick Cave and \u2018Amnesiac\u2019-era Radiohead.<\/p>\n<p>Banks described \u2018This Mirror Weighs A Ton\u2019 to <em>NME<\/em> as a \u201cno-skips\u201d album. It definitely bears riding it through for the whole journey of Interpol\u2019s sonic past, present and future laid out, marking their most unified yet experimental effort in years and arguably their most consistent and satisfying since \u2018Antics\u2019. The drive of the record, we are told is \u201ca spirit of striving for elation, enlightenment and clarity\u201d. Mission accomplished. As we close on the sparse beauty of \u2018Sudden\u2019 the frontman concludes: \u201c<em>I was born uncertain, that\u2019s what keeps me intact<\/em>\u201d. A fitting end for Interpol\u2019s most human and personal record to date, one that accepts constant change.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Details<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3810046 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Interpol_TMWT_Cover_F_RGB-1.jpg\" alt=\"Interpol \u2013 &apos;This Mirror Weighs A Ton&apos;\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> August 28, 2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Label:<\/strong> Partisan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/album\/interpol-this-mirror-weighs-a-ton-album-review-lyrics-3964741&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.nme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/interpol_mirror_ton_2000.jpg&#8221;] Interpol, 2026. 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