Mirrors isn’t intended for light background listening, instead it literally takes you into its mysterious atmospheric audio collage and doesn’t let go.
A fascinating extrasensory adventure from start to finish
Everyday Dust returns with his fourth album, Mirrors, for Norway’s Sparkwood and further questions our reality, our own reflection, strange facsimiles, and sound that matches our every moment. These are tranquil and darker passages, nine tracks that ebb and flow while exploring the “mortal self and the reflected self—and the ethereal, fantastical and nightmarish possibilities of what happens when the two are detached.”
Each audible slice on Mirrors exudes self-awareness. Ominous drones drift by, carefully crossing over each other as an ethereal ambient condensation develops. Not entirely void of percussion, Mirrors also reaches through via subtle broken beats such as the utterly absorbing synthesizer sparks on “Feedback Of Copies” to the broken ambient-industrial shards of “Infinity Of Fragments.” An organic sheen is thread throughout each piece—sometimes surreal, and sometimes tangible. Layers of textured sound structures dip into and out of consciousness. Tracks like “7 Candles,” “Swapping Places,” and “You Facing Me Facing You” apply this otherworldly characteristic—transporting the listener to strange sonic terrain often devoid of boundaries and seemingly cascading into infinite directions. Mirrors isn’t intended for light background listening, instead it literally takes you into its mysterious atmospheric audio collage and doesn’t let go. If “Condensation” alone doesn’t grasp you by the soul with its overarching dark-ambient propulsion that transcends time and space, then not much else will.
Mirrors is ultimately a fascinating extrasensory adventure from start to finish that must be consumed in one fell swoop.
Mirrors is available on Sparkwood. [Bandcamp]
