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Interpol have announced their eighth studio album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton<\/em><\/a>. Arriving on August 28, the follow-up to 2022\u2019s The Other Side of Make-Believe<\/em><\/a> marks their debut release with Partisan Records<\/a>. The band has also shared two songs from the album, the slow-burning title track and \u2018See Out Loud\u2019, the latter of which features guitarist Daniel Kessler\u2019s first vocal since Turn on the Bright Lights<\/em>\u2018 \u2018PDA\u2019. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n This Mirror Weighs a Ton<\/em> 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\u2019s permanent collection.<\/p>\n \u201cI 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,\u201d Wyatt said in a press release. \u201cIt was something almost a little bit more like chamber music \u2014 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Kessler commented, \u201cI 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\u2019t have context for what kind of music this is \u2014 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 \u2014 and suddenly it was clearly not going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n