A record that sprang from an experiment in Space and Time: The geographical Space between the four band members who all live in different parts of the world, and the short pocket of Time they had together in the same country to put something to tape.
‘The narrative of Deep Sleep is this: we got together, we wrote some songs and we recorded them in the space of ten days,’ says de Borst, ‘It was basically an experiment to see if we could do it and this is what we got, for better or worse. We had this manifesto of ‘we have to do this fast, it needs to fit within these sonic parameters, and we want to keep it simple.’’
Smoke And Mirrors debuted in the Official New Zealand Top 40 Albums on 9 October 2006. It has been in the Top 40 Albums for three weeks with a highest position of #16. There are five albums by The Datsuns in the Top 40 Albums with one reaching Number One.