MIRRORS

1. Something that gives a minutely faithful representation, image, or idea of
something else: Gershwin's music was a mirror of its time.
2. A pattern for imitation; exemplar: a man who was the mirror of fashion. Something
worthy of imitation.
3. /Verb/ To reflect as a mirror does
4. /Adjective/ Music. (of a canon or fugue) capable of being played in retrograde or
in inversion, as though read in a mirror placed beside or below the music.
5. /Idiom/ With mirrors, by or as if by magic.

Mirrors have announced details of the release of their debut album, Lights &
Offerings. The 10-track long-player will be released through Skint on Monday the 28th
of February and through UNDO records on April 20th.

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

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

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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.
Meanwhile, having last year completed a European tour supporting OMD they are set to play some dates in March with Fujiya + Miyagi. The full list of dates is as
follows:

April
12th Geb?ude 9, K?ln
13th Comet, Berlin
14th Molotow, Hamburg
15th Beatpol, Dresden
17th Das Bett, Frankfurt
20th Atomic Caf?, M?nchen
22nd Plaza Zurich, Switzerland
23rd Badeschiff, Vienna

May
1st Camden Crawl, London
7th Festival De Norte, Vilagarcia
11th The Great Escape - The Haunt, Brighton
22nd Rotande Club, Brussels
28th Glynde Festival, Sussex, England

June
14th Madrid, Spain [OMD Support]
15th Barcelona, Spain [OMD Support]