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Mirror Ritual - Single Review: Nothing New
30 Jul 2020 // A review by Paul Goddard
New single Nothing New from Wellington-based Transistor is a tricky, trippy, psychedelic aural beast. A snarly bastard of a song.
It is that person you meet at a party who walks up and is just immediately in your face saying look at me. Spinning around on the dancefloor alone, kicking up a storm and not giving a shit.
It demands to be heard from the off. There is no courtship going on, no easing in as the drums and bass drill into your ears at breakneck speed. The groove is deep solid and swirling as the vocals float in and out.
Those vocals are the space dust in this sonic maelstrom. Swirling around and fizzing, they push and pull as the music races along.
Nothing New is 2.43 of some of the most exciting, experimental mind-melting noise I have heard in a long time and it HAS to be played loud.
If you are lucky enough to go and see this performed live I guarantee when it is over you will stand there gobsmacked, completely floored and smiling.
Transistor are on (to) something.
Rating:
( 5 / 5 )
About Mirror Ritual
Following a year since the release of Contextualise and its supporting Extending Vision tour, the previous trio of Transistor has given way to Mirror Ritual. The newly transfigured four piece of Lochie Noble, Eli Polaczuk, Mia Kelly and Riley Dick debuted the new moniker at ‘Flying Nun’s What Was That Thing? Live’ event, carrying the already established sound into a denser, more expansive sonic space.
Resting on the unstable threshold of past and future, Mirror Ritual’s songs of hidden, yet pervasive fears set the soundtrack to a world of dreams and delusions. Their explosive, dynamic live sound weaves echo drenched melodies through fuzzed out guitars and lucid synthesisers, all held together by time-shifting bass grooves and propulsive rhythms.
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