Alone in Central Park
When nothing seems to happen
All my thoughts invaded
Memories degraded 

From the “two hundred couches” invoked in their debut single “PDA,” Interpol have always understood New York from the inside out: dim rooms, temporary beds, private encounters, and the emotional residue left behind when the party—or the relationship—has run its course. Yet those rooms have never existed in isolation. Outside them, their city lives and breathes, stretching from the Village through the Lower East Side and across the river to Williamsburg and beyond—a nocturnal network of streets, apartments, clubs, and half-remembered faces from which Interpol emerged. Its magic has always depended on a measure of opacity: the freedom to vanish into a crowd, arrive unannounced, or leave no record beyond somebody else’s memory. “Iron City” asks what happens to that magic when a city like New York is placed under the gaze of AI-powered Flock license-plate cameras—when the traffic threading those streets becomes a searchable memory.

In the official visualizer for their new single “Iron City,” street-level glimpses and fragments of the skyline dissolve into close studies of circuit boards and exposed electronics, as though the city’s buildings have been opened to reveal the nervous system beneath. The sequence recasts the metropolis through the impersonal logic of an AI-powered Flock camera network: not merely watched, but indexed, with passing vehicles reduced to time, place, and description—signals that can be stored, sorted, and recalled. New York is no longer merely a setting or a reflection of the people inside it; it has become an organism in its own right—watching, processing, and perhaps preparing to outlive them.

Frontman Paul Banks has described “Iron City” as a conversation between a human narrator and a future artificial intelligence that may be running what remains, leaving open the question of whether this new technological guardian will prove benevolent or enraged.

Musically, “Iron City” unfolds with measured grandeur, its dusky piano and chiming accents opening a vast nocturnal space around the band. The guitars move in close formation over a steady forward pull, while Banks’ low, intimate delivery makes “I can feel your love, iron city” sound equally devotional and ominous.

Watch the visualizer for “Iron City” below:

Iron City is the third advance track from Interpol’s forthcoming eighth studio album, This Mirror Weighs a Ton, following the title track and “See Out Loud.” Produced by Andrew Wyatt and mixed by Dave Fridmann, the record broadens the band’s palette with strings, woodwinds, layered harmonies, acoustic guitar, and experimental sound design. Recorded at Wyatt’s studio on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it marks Interpol’s first album sessions in their home city in more than a decade. This Mirror Weighs a Ton arrives August 28 via Partisan Records.

The album’s cover artwork gives that anxiety a physical form. It features Addie Wagenknecht’s 2013 sculpture Asymmetric Love Number 2, a chandelier assembled from steel, CCTV cameras, and DSL internet cables and held in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s permanent collection. Suspended in a pristine white chamber, an object associated with warmth and illumination becomes an apparatus of scrutiny—a fitting image for a record circling questions of perception, memory, and technological control.

Pre-order and pre-save This Mirror Weighs a Ton here.

Interpol will spend the remainder of 2026 moving through European festivals, an extensive North American run, a Mexican festival appearance, and an 18-date UK and European co-headline tour with Bloc Party.

For tickets and additional information, visit Interpol’s official tour page.

Interpol 2026 Tour Dates

July

• July 15 — Florence, Italy — Visarno Arena — supporting My Chemical Romance
• July 16 — Bologna, Italy — Sequoie Music Park at Parco delle Caserme Rosse
• July 18 — Carhaix, France — Les Vieilles Charrues Festival
• July 19 — Dour, Belgium — Dour Festival
• July 31 — Denver, CO — Mission Ballroom — with Youth Lagoon

August

• August 2 — Jackson Hole, WY — Snow King Mountain — with Youth Lagoon
• August 3 — Boise, ID — Revolution Concert House — with Youth Lagoon
• August 4 — Salt Lake City, UT — Red Butte Garden — with Youth Lagoon
• August 6 — Portland, OR — McMenamins Edgefield — with Loathe
• August 8 — Tacoma, WA — Dune Peninsula — with Loathe
• August 11 — San Francisco, CA — The Warfield — with julie
• August 12 — San Francisco, CA — The Warfield — with julie
• August 14 — Santa Barbara, CA — Santa Barbara Bowl — with julie
• August 15 — San Diego, CA — The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — with julie
• August 16 — Las Vegas, NV — The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas — with julie
• August 23 — London, UK — Outbreak Fest at All Points East, Victoria Park
• August 28 — Lisbon, Portugal — Kalorama Festival, Parque da Bela Vista
• August 30 — Saint-Cloud, France — Rock en Seine, Domaine National de Saint-Cloud

September

• September 26 — Brooklyn, NY — CBGB Festival, Under the K Bridge
• September 29 — Vancouver, BC — Rogers Arena — supporting sombr

October

• October 2 — Toronto, ON — The Bowl at Sobeys Stadium — with DIIV
• October 3 — Montreal, QC — L’Olympia — with DIIV
• October 4 — Boston, MA — Roadrunner — with DIIV
• October 6 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE — with DIIV
• October 7 — Cleveland, OH — Agora Theatre — with DIIV
• October 9 — Detroit, MI — Masonic Jack White Theatre — with DIIV
• October 10 — Columbus, OH — KEMBA Live! Outdoors — with DIIV
• October 11 — Chicago, IL — The Salt Shed Fairgrounds — with DIIV
• October 13 — St. Louis, MO — The Factory — with DIIV
• October 15 — Atlanta, GA — The Eastern — with DIIV
• October 16 — Atlanta, GA — The Eastern — with DIIV
• October 17 — Nashville, TN — The Pinnacle — with DIIV and French Police
• October 24 — Tijuana, Mexico — Tecate Península, Estadio Caliente

November

All dates co-headlined with Bloc Party.

• November 10 — Copenhagen, Denmark — Royal Arena
• November 11 — Berlin, Germany — Uber Arena
• November 12 — Hamburg, Germany — Barclays Arena
• November 14 — Düsseldorf, Germany — PSD Bank Dome
• November 16 — Paris, France — Le Zénith
• November 17 — Amsterdam, Netherlands — AFAS Live
• November 18 — Brussels, Belgium — Forest National
• November 20 — Birmingham, UK — Utilita Arena
• November 21 — Cardiff, UK — Utilita Arena
• November 23 — Manchester, UK — Aviva Studios
• November 24 — Manchester, UK — Aviva Studios
• November 26 — Brighton, UK — Brighton Centre
• November 27 — Brighton, UK — Brighton Centre
• November 28 — Sheffield, UK — Utilita Arena
• November 30 — Dublin, Ireland — 3Arena

December

All dates co-headlined with Bloc Party.

• December 2 — Glasgow, UK — OVO Hydro
• December 4 — London, UK — Olympia
• December 5 — London, UK — Olympia

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