Past autumn, British MIRRORS have garnered interest when supporting OMD in Germany. Also they’ve been contributing a remix to OMD last single ‘Sister Mary Says. With ‘Ways To An End’, the first harbinger of the upcoming debut album ‘Lights and Offerings’, released on 18th March, is out. But the best thing is that you can get the 80s homage for free by clicking the following link: http://www.piasgermany.de/mirrorsAlso you’ll find a video to the song, as well as further snippets from the upcoming album. Enough material to get tuned for the release.
Below are some details about the band & the album:
Mirrors have announced details of the release of their debut album, Lights & Offerings. The 10-track long-player will be released through PIAS (Skint in the UK) on Friday March 18th 2011. The album will be preceded by a single, Into The Heart on Friday March 11th.
Having previously worked with Richard X and Ed Buller, and fired by a fierce D.I.Y. spirit that permeates every facet of their world, the band decamped to a rural farmhouse in Sussex run by a French hippy commune to self-produce their debut album.
Completely self-contained and locked away in a room full of sleeping bags, old synths and supplies of food and other consumables dropped off by their label, they recorded the album in a month during early Summer 2010. Later mixed at the DFA studios in New York by Rapture collaborator Jonathan Kreinik, the track-listing for the album is as above. The album features the videos for previous singles Ways To An End and Hide And Seek.
As happy to reference XTC, PiL and Joy Division as they are Basic Channel, Kraftwerk, Wolfgang Voigt and Tangerine Dream, Mirrors are a band with an aesthetic – an all pervading one which they live 24/7. “We like that whole idea that your art is your life,’” comments James New. “You are what you make.”
Making their live debut in the summer of 2009 and with early singles on Moshi Moshi and Pure Groove, they signed to Brighton based Skint in late 2009.
From the start there has always been much more beyond the music they produce on their analog synths (“We love old synths – they only play one note at a time. They go out of tune. They’re a nightmare to program. But that’s why we like them. We don’t want everything completely polished and produced.”) – an attention to visuals, sleeve art (their sleeve designer Jules Balme designed for the likes of The Clash and Adam & The Ants) and their ‘look’ (“Suits add a certain discipline.”) have marked them out as different.
Allied to their incredible self-sufficiency (the aesthetic from their on-stage visuals, filmed by themselves, to the ‘look’ is very much self-directed) is a ‘political’ restless edge and discomfort that has rarely been seen in the past 25 years. “We are disappointed in society around us,” comments James. “Everything has become boring, socially and politically. We were bored of our Blackberries and bored of our laptops and bored of groups making absolutely no effort to do anything creative. With Mirrors we wanted to build something from the ground up and create something completely different.” Resistance through rituals indeed.
Tracklist
1. Fear of Drowning
2. Look At Me
3. Into The Heart
4. Write Through The Night
5. Ways To An End
6. Hide And Seek
7. Somewhere Strange
8. Something O n Your Mind
9. Searching The Wilderness
10. Secrets
Source: Press Release
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