Interpol have released "Iron City", the third single from their forthcoming ninth album "This Mirror Weighs A Ton", due out on 28 August via Partisan Records. The atmospheric track engages with the subject of artificial intelligence, imagining a conversation between a human narrator and a future AI that is "running things", and it matters as a notable band using new music to reflect on how technology may reshape both society and creativity.

Frontman Paul Banks told NME the song switches between the narrator and a "matriarchal tech" singing to one another, questioning whether such intelligence would be benevolent or hostile. He said he does not fear AI replacing art, arguing it can only mimic existing human work and would "devolve into a simulacra" without fresh human creativity to draw on, though he conceded the military sphere is "a bit sketchier". The album, produced by Andrew Wyatt and mixed by Dave Fridmann, follows the title track and single "See Out Loud". Interpol will support Deftones at All Points East x Outbreak in London on 23 August, before a North American tour and a UK and European co-headline arena run with Bloc Party, including two nights at London's Olympia on 4 and 5 December.