Mirror Mirror from Brooklyn, NYC started life in 2003 as a two piece - David Riley and Ryan Lucero - and has since expanded to include drummer Matt Bagdanoff and what they describe as "a revolving cast of guests to their revelatory live shows".
Disillusioned by the loutishness and loudness of Punk their ambitions lie elsewhere.
This single is a taster for their first full length album portentously entitled 'The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness'.
If this slightly bizarrre double a-side is anything to go by they'd be more at home performing in a cult off Broadway musical than in a sweaty club.
They offer up what I can only classify as hymnal-pop with shades of prog-rock. Each track proceeds at a sluggish pace with minimalist backing to sleepy choral voices.
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Heaven only knows what either song is supposed to be about. A random lyric I picked up from 'Lock Up Your Sons' was "this could be the start of something new" which could be construed as a promise or threat.
There's an intriguing spaced out psychedelic ambience to the finished product but not surprisingly it all ends up sounding highly pretentious and vaguely silly
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