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Mirror Mirror

Sons And Daughters

Mirror Mirror

Third release from Glasgow's indie rock quartet, produced by Optimo's JD Twitch

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Domino
UK Release date
13/06/2011
US Release date
12/07/2011
  1. 10.0 |   Scotland on Sunday

    This is the sound of promises being delivered, with interest. Print edition only

  2. 9.0 |   Clash

    A raw, nocturnal and very northern record, and one that’s nailed its bleeding, hedonistic colours high up the musical mast
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  3. 9.0 |   Subba Cultcha

    A dark and brooding, electronically tinted album
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  4. 8.5 |   BBC

    There won’t be a more sexily evil record released this year
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  5. 8.0 |   Rave Magazine

    With a few good listens, the seemingly ordinary becomes exponentially more interesting, marking Mirror, Mirror as the band’s finest work to date
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  6. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Ultimately, depending upon how you felt about their last record Mirror Mirror is either a return to, or continuation of, form
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  7. 8.0 |   The Scotsman

    An exercise in restraint, in pulling punches where you might want to feel the full force of their onslaught
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  8. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    The band are at their most exceptional when the going gets dark
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  9. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    As poised, affecting and brilliant as everything Sons and Daughters first promised
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  10. 8.0 |   The List

    Ensures their catalogue remains high-quality and ripe for future (re)discovery
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  11. 8.0 |   Uncut

    A stirring record, packed full of ideas. Print edition only

  12. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A record that softens with repeated listens. Print edition only

  13. 8.0 |   Q

    A creative rebirth. Print edition only

  14. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    Mirror Mirror is a gothic album. Not in the modern hip genre sense of Vangelis synths and yowling actress vocals or as doomy pale men but in the creepiness, the sense that an indefinite evil lurks among the spires and cobwebs
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  15. 7.0 |   Spin

    Embracing a gothy vibe, they empty spaces where guitars used to churn and emphasize large, spare beats
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  16. 7.0 |   No Ripcord

    Mirror Mirror may be easier to admire, or more likely be creeped out by, than to love, but it marks an interesting turning point for Sons and Daughters
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  17. 7.0 |   Bowlegs

    This isn’t a warm album, but it’s a good one. Listen to it for a month, and you might just decide it’s actually pretty great
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  18. 7.0 |   DIY

    Reflective and dreamy, this is indie minimalist art-rock of the purest kind, the type that is so incredibly hard to dance to
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  19. 6.0 |   NME

    Less than revolutionary
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  20. 6.0 |   Independent on Sunday

    Dark vintage synth pop (early Human League) and scratchy, spindly post-punk (Wire, the Cure)
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  21. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    A painstakingly constructed and constantly challenging work, Mirror, Mirror requires considerable perseverance to allow its unorthodox appeal to slowly seep into the listener's consciousness
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  22. 6.0 |   Under The Radar

    More minimal? Almost certainly, but there's also quite a stylistic leap here
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  23. 5.8 |   A.V. Club

    Mirror Mirror ends on a high note with “The Beach,” a sneering, bar-razing nod to the band’s former obsession with the Man In Black. Which prompts the question “Why did they ever leave him behind?”
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  24. 5.6 |   Pitchfork

    Smacks of a band struggling to be taken more seriously, but simply settling on a more stone-faced form of pastiche isn't the way to do it
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  25. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Overall on Mirror Mirror, Sons and Daughters sound like they are borrowing from the Interpol version of post-punk rather than the real thing
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  26. 4.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Mirror, Mirror offers up a few songs of note while the rest resides in the dreaded heap of all-filler-no-killer
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