On July 10, 2026, The Walkmen ‘s Matt Barrick joined the band as its touring drummer, replacing Urian Hackney, who departed to focus on his family. Barrick and Paul Banks had both previously performed and recorded together as two thirds of the art rock band Muzz .
The band announced its eighth studio album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton , on June 9, 2026. Upon the album’s announcement, the band added longtime touring members Brandon Curtis and Brad Truax to its core line-up and promotional photographs, Curtis however does not play on the record. Paul Banks noted:…
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In March 2026, Interpol announced that a new album was on the way. While Fogarino played on the album, he remained unable to tour, with Urian Hackney of The Armed and Rough Francis now filling in for him. Interpol also revealed that they signed with Partisan Records for this album’s…
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On April 20, 2024, Interpol performed a free concert at the Zócalo in Mexico City to an estimated crowd of 160,000, the largest show of the band’s career. Later in 2024, Interpol toured North America and Europe while playing Antics in full for its 20th anniversary.
Beginning in 2023, Chris Broome filled in for drummer Sam Fogarino, who was recovering from spinal surgery.
Interpol began writing songs for a seventh studio album during the summer of 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic had impacted the way they wrote music; the band wrote in an Instagram post that they, at first, “had to use the internet to circulate ideas and collaborate remotely” before eventually being able…
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On January 30, 2019, Interpol released “Fine Mess”, a song that was left off of Marauder , as a single. On March 28, the band announced a new EP, A Fine Mess , consisting of songs from the Marauder sessions that didn’t make the final cut, with a release date…
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On May 24, 2018, Pitchfork confirmed that the name of the new album would be Marauder . In June 2018, the band held a press conference in Mexico City and announced the album’s release date of August 24, 2018. That same day, they released the album’s first single, entitled “The…
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In September 2016, Paul Banks revealed in an interview on Beats 1 that Interpol would resume writing in the fall. In January 2017, Interpol announced that their sixth album would be out in 2018 and that they would embark on a tour for Turn On the Bright Lights’ 15th anniversary,…
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The band announced on June 5, 2014, that their fifth studio album, entitled El Pintor , would be released on September 9, 2014. This album’s name was derived as an anagram by Paul Banks who created the name while thinking of new design concepts for merchandise. It was the band’s…
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