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Single review: Mirrors – Into The Heart (Skint)
By Marc Samuels | Published on Thursday 3 February 2011
A synth-pop revival you say? Don’t be silly, it’ll never catch on. Except of course, it did, and we’re now in a thrilling post-guitar era when not a week goes by without some exciting retro-futurist music appearing from pretty young things with some technology and all the right influences. Brighton four-piece Mirrors are one such group and, like their peers Delphic and Hurts, are suitably serious and delicately styled, inevitably well-dressed men with sharp suits and sharper haircuts.
‘Into The Heart’ is a straightforward electro-pop song, lacking somewhat the drama and tension of Mirrors’ two previous singles, but still a thousand times more interesting than anything else released by any new indie band you could think of at the moment.
Sung with a slightly strangulated affectation of the sort that was de rigueur in 1981, there are nods to all your old favourites – The Human League, early Depeche Mode, OMD et al – as well as echoes of 90s electronica and the frosted cool of Ladytron (but without the icy aloofness), but the group just about manage to conceive their own identity as they submit another arty tale of fractured relationships and dislocation.
Released on Valentine’s Day, it’s a perfect gift for your loved one of choice. MS
Phsyical release: 14 Feb