Smokey Mirror - Smokey Mirror - VINYL LP

The duo of Toronto-based Brent Randall and Los Angeles-dwelling Johnny Toomey are known for their previous achievements with Los Angeles based, baroque-pop group, The Electric Looking Glass. Both musicians compliment each other stylistically and add sparks to their newest project, Vanity Mirror. Their debut LP, PUFF was written, recorded, performed, produced and even mixed by Brent Randall. The resulting album starts where their other project Electric Looking Glass leaves off, with hummable, dreamy pop that branches out into more intimate, less genre specific freeform songcraft. It is a nostalgic collection of songs pieced together in makeshift spaces while traveling between LA, Montreal, Detroit and Toronto. Taping old pianos in public libraries and abandoned houses and tracking vocals in vintage shop basements, Randall sent the tracks to Toomey who recorded drums and percussion in his Los Angeles basement using a handheld field recorder. Listeners will call to mind artists like Emitt Rhodes, Olivia Tremor Control, and Belle and Sebastian. Vanity Mirror's PUFF will see a digital/vinyl on May 12th, 2023 via We Are Busy Bodies.1. (I First Saw You There on) Tinpot Lane2. Tuesday's News3. Girl Feeding A Swan4. Dandelion Wish5. How I Learned Something Worth Knowing6. A Fool With An Applecart7. Somehow You Know8. Look At The Clouds9. Talkin Walkie-Talkie Rice Crispies Blues10. Happily Ever After Album Tracks 1. I First Saw You on Tinpot Lane 2. Tuesday's News 3. Girl Feeding a Swan 4. Dandelion Wish 5. How I Learned Something Worth Knowing 6. Fool with An Applecart 7. Somehow You Know 8. Look at the Clouds 9. Talkin' Walkie-Talkie Rice Crispies Blues 10. Happily Ever After

Album Tracks 1. Parallax 2. Gunshot Glitter 3. Nightwalk 4. Sinistry 5. Fields and Forests 6. Knockoff 7. Where Do We Go? 8. Spasmatic 9. Wolf in Sheepskin 10. Olivet

It was somewhere in remote Alaska that Michael Gold-who records and performs pop-infused psych-rock as Mirror Tree-began to realize that he was officially on the road less traveled. InchI was flying around between all these native villages and all these little, muddy gravel air strips in a single-engine Cessna, in and out of snowstorms, and landing on ice-covered runways,Inch says Gold, who worked for several years as a pilot in the Last Frontier, and currently is based out of Los Angeles, and flies a 737 for a major airline. Raised in L.A., Gold was formally trained in classical and jazz piano, and the wonders and possibilities of music seeped into him. He continued pursuing music in college, studying jazz piano at nearby CalArts, where he lived in a barn in the remote town of Val Verde, which was at one point known as the InchBlack Palm Springs.Inch Around this time, he joined the indie-disco band Poolside as a keyboardist/vocalist, bouncing around the world on tour with them, as well co-writing songs like the disco-rock-fusion epic InchFeel Alright.Inch (18 million streams on Spotify and counting.) Gold teamed up with former Poolside bandmate Filip Nikolic to develop his sound-something like a mishmash of Supertramp and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. With Gold serving as the main writing and performing force of Mirror Tree, and Nikolic producing the set, while co-writing and performing on some tracks as well, Mirror Tree took flight. Gold would demo out songs and at his home studio, and then bring them to Nikolic's studio, where they would work together to create grooves worthy of ELO for the chillwave generation. Album Tracks 1. Intro 2. See It Through 3. Another Day 4. Echoes Competing 5. Let It Go 6. Feel It 7. Tuesday 8. A Message 9. Carefree 10. Along for the Ride 11. In a Day 12. 300 Miles 13. Thinking of You 14. Mirror Tree