An xxjfg archive for posts featuring Mirror Mirror.
Welcome, welcome, to 20JFG’s fantabulous end of year round up. Once again we’ll be raiding the year’s archives for the tracks that made permanent homes on our digital/analogue devices. We’ll also be posting a few things that we loved but didn’t cover at the time: music that had already been blogged to death or music…
Gallic dynamo-psychedelean shadow pigmy outfit The Dreams stalk parks, forests, woods and sparsely populated rural areas at night. They carry blowpipes loaded with darts containing a poison that produces epileptic seizures where the victims twitch on the floor while their astral selves slide into a voodoo netherworld of twisted paths and general nefariousness. What a…
The house dips in and out of the frenzied waters of the late 20th century property market like the obstinate detritus of a calamitous shipwreck. If you examine its contractual life, you will find a recurring pattern over the decades: property title found in the state of the late A, bequeathed to B, and eventually…
Mirror Mirror’s music is a crypt of mystery and sex, a moist opening on the side of a rock wall, enticing entrance to a cavernous corridor darken illuminated by feeble red candles down which you walk surrounded by cloaked figures, eventually reaching a grotto where naked bodies lie, silver amulets, strange flowers and sharp knives…
The beautiful guitar melody with which Mirror Mirror’s ‘New Horizons’ begins contains in the revolution of its tones the complete structure of what is to come, like a strange flower slowly unfolding its crimson petals to reveal a wonderful piece of psyche-folk that seduces us with the scent of the United States of America, Syd…