Interpol have given fans another taster of their new album with the debut of the punchy ‘Wings On Fire’. Check out footage below.
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The NYC indie icons have been on the road throughout North and South America as they gear up to release their eighth studio album, the follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed ‘The Other Side of Make-Believe’.
After airing the propulsive ‘See Out Loud‘ for the first time last month and playing it at every show since, the band played a stop-off gig at Revel Entertainment Center in Albuquerque in between Coachella weekends one and two, where they slipped ‘Wings On Fire’ into the set.
In keeping with the direct nature of second album ‘Antics‘ and seeming like a close cousin to ‘The Heinrich Manoeuvre’ from 2007’s ‘Our Love To Admire‘, ‘Wings On Fire’ is Interpol at their most choppy, anthemic and locked-in, loaded with the infectious hooky chorus of “Find out who you are“.
See a clip below, or watch it in the full set from 23 minutes in.
The song is again in keeping with what frontman Paul Banks shared about their next record sounding “quite high energy”.
“[It’s] pretty great, to be honest with you,” Banks told NME back in 2024. “I’m pretty pumped about the stuff that we have worked on so far. That’s all I can really say: it’s an enthusiastic ‘yes’. It’s pretty cool. With this [next] record, we’re getting back to writing together in a room and my favourite tracks so far are quite high energy.”
Then, last July, guitarist Daniel Kessler told us to expect “some upbeat tracks, but also some different atmospherics that I don’t think we’ve had before”.
“There are different moods,” he continued. “It’s not all rock; some of it is more upbeat in a different kind of way to what people might think of Interpol. It’s been a really fun process.”
The band, led by a newly bleached-blonde Banks, are currently touring with The Armed’s Urian Hackney on drums. Drummer Sam Fogarino, who joined the New York City band in 2000, underwent spinal surgery in 2023 and stepped back from touring. They have however confirmed that Fogarino co-wrote and performed on the new album that was “coming soon”.
After Coachella weekend two, Interpol will head to Australia and New Zealand in May to support Deftones. After that, they’ve got a run of European shows across July and August, including a support slot with My Chemical Romance in Italy.
Then, on August 23, they’ll join up with Deftones again to support them at London’s All Points East x Outbreak as part of a stacked line-up also featuring IDLES, Amyl & The Sniffers, AFI, Esdeekid, JPEGMAFIA, Deafheaven, ¥øu$Uk€ ¥uk1mat$U and Mannequin Pussy.
At the end of the year, they’re rounding off the year with a co-headline tour alongside Bloc Party in the UK and Europe, including two huge shows at London’s upcoming British Airways ARC venue. Find tickets to those shows here.