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Mirrors – Into The Heart

• 28th Jan 2011

Mirrors have announced details of the release of their debut album, ‘Lights And Offerings’. The 10-track long-player will be released through Skint on Monday the 28th of February.

The album will be preceded by a new single, ‘Into The Heart’ on Monday the 14th of February.

They have released a beautiful and surreal video for ‘Into The Heart’, directed by US Design.

The band will also head out on a UK tour in March supporting fellow electronicists Fujiya & Miyagi. Full details of the tour are below.
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 follows:

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 On Your Mind
9. Searching In The Wilderness
10. Secrets

Watch an album teaser previewing all the above tracks here: link

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, Mirrors 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 Blackberrys 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.

Meanwhile, having last year completed a European tour supporting OMD they are set to play some solo dates in February, followed by the aforementioned March tour with Fujiya & Miyagi.

The full list of dates is as follows:
February
3rd The Haunt, Brighton
5th Upstairs At The Garage, London
11th Shepherds Bush Empire, London
24th The Green Door Store, Brighton (album launch night)
March (all w/ Fujiya & Miyagi)
2nd Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
3rd Islington Mill, Salford
4th Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
5th The Fleece, Bristol
8th Heaven, London