Up-and-coming label Lefse Records signing The Delta Mirror announces their month long residency at the Echo. Merging brooding songs with boom bap production, their debut Machines That Listen (out 3.16.2010) is a clever, haunting record full of ear-tickling electronics, psych layers, and foreboding storytelling. With plans to tour this spring along with a stop at SXSW, the songs of the Delta Mirror are poised to linger in the ears of new listeners well into 2010.
Listen to two tracks plus an Alias remix via Stereogum
All shows at The Echo:
March 1st
9PM – Healamonster & Tarsier
10PM – Nalepa
11PM – The Delta Mirror
12AM – Full Frontal
March 8th
9PM – Corridor
10PM – Alexandra Hope
11PM – The Delta Mirror
12AM – Sister Crayon
March 15th
9PM – Cannoneers
10PM – Pop Noir
11PM – The Delta Mirror
12AM – Divisible
March 29th
9PM – Borneo
10PM – Pity Party
11PM – The Delta Mirror
12AM – Spirit Vine
The Delta Mirror is a cocktail of all your past loves, the ones you wish had stuck around, and check up on from time to time even though you’ve moved on. They were made from the sprained fingers and broken records of mid 90’s hip hop. They were made from the bent circuits of electronica, dead IDM lap tops and broken shoegaze strings. They were made from the injured spirit of a folk singer’s broken heart. Alongside bands like The Big Pink and The Fuck Buttons, The Delta Mirror sees the things that made our past relationships work and brings them together creating the ideal love.
Craig Gordon and David Bolt started out as a hip hop two-piece years ago and they have been writing music in some form ever since. With the addition of Karrie K on bass, their sound has progressed to an ambient mix of shoegazy guitar and gothic vocals, but their production has held onto the same boom bap button pushing they started with. Machines That Listen is The Delta Mirror’s debut long play. Each song on this 9 track collection is a story that takes place in a different room of a hospital. Track 2 “and the radio played on” tells of a dying elderly man and his wife’s last moments together, while “hold me down just don’t let me go” is told from the perspective of an ER nurse treating a stab victim.
Listening to this record is like walking through the halls of Bellevue or Cedars Sinai listening to a score that is re-written daily. The Delta Mirror has shared the stage with bands like Sleepy Sun, VOICEs VOICEs, EGADZ!, Jogger, Odd Nosdam, Tape Deck Mountan, The Mathematicians, Oliver Future and Healamonster & Tarsier. Later this year Lefse will release a collection of remixes from Machines that Listen put together from an all star cast of bands and producers.
