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CMU Approved
Approved: Mirrors (SNAP Of The Day)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 21 July 2009
A real favourite at the moment, Mirrors are a Brighton four-piece making Vince Clarke inspired synth-pop; black flavoured, echoing chamber songs that reference Depeche Mode and Soft Cell with a knowing, educated swipe. ‘Look At Me’, their debut single, is a fine example of this lineage, a mechanical, immaculately produced mid tempo piece that sounds organic, even soulful at times, despite the use of solely electronic instruments. It’s full, taut sound suggests that they’re a band with broad ambitions, an assumption supported by their excellent set at Brighton’s Loop festival a couple of weekends ago, playing two sets prior to the chanteuse du jour of electronica, Fever Ray, and successfully entrancing the cavernous Corn Exchange. One glance at their influences also suggests grand plans, with the oft-menacing English playwright Harold Pinter placed in the same list as Sheffield’s punk poet John Cooper Clarke and French composer Claude Debussy. If they can be as genre breaking as any of those then they’ll surely be onto a winning formula.
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