I think we throw around the term narcissist a lot and often forget what were referencing - a tale of a man who rejects the true and tangible love of his lover to spend his life intoxicated by his own reflection. For me, the 'Modern Mirror' is our digital internet identity reflected back at us. For their third full-length, members Deb Demure and Mona D took their obsession with Greco-Roman iconography one step further by stealing away to Athens to write and record, returning with a sprawling modern allegory to Ovids Narcissus myth. Theyve taken the sound of 2016s excellent and distilled it even further, slimming down to a lean eight songs that deploy their trusty toolkit of gated drums, neon synths (Roland JX-8P, , more, full gear list in the liner notes), cavernous vocals and chorus-soaked guitars more potently than ever before. But have a look beneath the glossy new wave lid and youll find an unexpected spiritual kinship to , s or the classic fingerpicked folk of . Opener A Dialogue sets the stage with swaths of Debs incantations piled on top of one another and drenched in reverb, before settling into machine-assisted synthpop mode with The Other Side. Other highlights include the blurry, Less Than Zero-smeared Noise Of The Void, sentimental elegy Long Division or the utterly gorgeous Oxytocin. Hard to find anyone else depicting the sinister side of vapid and hedonistic Los Angeles so colorfully right now. 33RPM single LP pressing on limited colored vinyl, housed in matte jacket with stunning art direction from (Silent Servant, , Jealous God). Recommended.
- black & white 'smash' colored vinyl
- printed inner sleeve
- limited edition of 500
- original release year: 2019
- music label: Dais Records 2025
