From the delicate finger picking of the post-rock folk of ‘Grandmother’s Body’ via the woozy, paranoid dissonance of ‘Alligator’, which slowly bleeds into fractured country played in a void, ‘The Darkened Mirror’ draws on a broad range of stylistic elements. Its instrumentation is minimal, the compositions darkly evocative and richly textured.
Slow, droning harmonica drifts over plucked guitar strings evoking ancient woodlands and archaic mysticism on ‘Sea Hag’s Lament’. At times mournful, at others haunting, and others still other-worldly, ‘The Darkened Mirror’ shows what can be created when experimentalism is balanced with compositional intuition.
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