Modern Mirror, by DRAB MAJESTY

Modern Mirror

by DRAB MAJESTY

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Jaromír Šmahel This track is awesome <3 Favorite track: Oxytocin.

saturn 🪐 I wasn't alive in the 80s but I do adore 80s music more than just about any other decade, and if anyone wants a contemporary album that truly Feels Like the 80s I think this is the magnum opus. My favorite drab and my initial gateway into darkwave Favorite track: Noise of the Void.

H7 Great Album.I was brought here by The Demonstration. Favorite songs are The Other Side and Elipsis. Favorite track: The Other Side.

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1.	A Dialogue 04:22	buy track
2.	The Other Side 06:04	buy track
3.	Ellipsis 05:06	buy track
4.	Noise of the Void 05:32	buy track
5.	Dolls in the Dark 04:51	buy track
6.	Oxytocin 03:55	buy track
7.	Long Division 05:04	buy track
8.	Out of Sequence 07:53	buy track

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Since the 2015 release of Drab Majesty’s debut “Careless”, and the release of the acclaimed sophomore album “The Demonstration” the following year, artist Deb Demure and collaborator Mona D. have firmly established themselves amongst the pantheon of dark synth-pop greats, establishing a devoted fan base worldwide with their singular hypnotic sound and mysterious, constantly-evolving presence.

Following intense and extensive touring in support of the first two albums, Drab Majesty escaped to the inspirational landscapes of Athens, Greece to channel the songs for their most ambitious album creation yet: Modern Mirror.

Blowing the dust off the antiquarian myth of Ovid’s “Narcissus”, Drab Majesty uses its premise as groundwork for a modern reinterpretation. Each song tells a piece of the story, in which the listener’s own self-identity has become warped and dissociated through rapidly expanding technology, losing touch with the origins of their own personalities. Setting the stage as a romantic saga of antiquity, “A Dialogue” asks the listener if they are truly in love amid a building wash of guitars and reverb. Elements of classic tragedy weigh heavily in the reflection of Modern Mirror in songs like “The Other Side”, possessing a fundamental sound that is energetic, luminous and hopeful. Fusing the sonic aesthetics of predecessors like New Order and The Cure within the cautious instruction of Greek mythology and modern science fiction, Drab Majesty has birthed a hybrid of dreamy malaise, captured for a future moment.

The first single, “Ellipsis”, romantically plays up the distorted concept of courting through modern technology in a world that has yet to adapt, while on “Long Division”, Deb’s resounding guitar cascades around the chorus shared with No Joy frontwoman Jasamine White-Gluz, wistfully warning us against our vanity and self-obsession. Even when hope for everlasting love peeks through in “Oxytocin”, a sparkling and stoic track sung by Mona D., we are firmly reminded our fleeting existence.

Modern Mirror is a journey of self-reflection, nostalgia, love, beauty, and heartbreak told across eight addictive and emotional synth pop anthems – a seemingly classic tale delivered unblinkingly through the frame of the modern world.

Produced by Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) and mastered by Dave Cooley, with appearances by Jasamine White-Gluz (No Joy) and Justin Meldal-Johnson (NIN, Beck, M83, Air). Packaging and design by Juan Mendez of Jealous God/Silent Servant.

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released July 12, 2019

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