Red Hot Dust EP out now
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Gloaming indie pop that evokes a certain bittersweet nostalgia. — Grimy Goods
After their debut single led to an ongoing collaboration with producer Chris Coady (Beach House, DIIV) Mirrorball is establishing themselves as one of Southern California's most compelling dream pop acts.
Mirrorball is the Los Angeles duo of Alexandra Johnstone and Scott Watson. They make nostalgic dream pop steeped in longing and a distinctly West Coast sense of place. Their songs feel half remembered, like an old pop song playing on the radio in another room.
Ultimately viewing themselves as a pop group, they draw from dream pop, psych pop, and electronic art-pop and bridge a West Coast melodic sensibility with the atmospheric worlds of Broadcast and Air.
Watson played in Los Angeles bands during the Silver Lake indie boom, while Johnstone grew up just outside Los Angeles performing in DIY music projects.
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What would happen if Beach House found themselves spending an afternoon playing music with Air? The result would probably sound a lot like what this excellent Los Angeles duo, Alexandra Johnstone and Scott Watson, have to offer.
Mirrorball move effortlessly through the space between dream pop and psych-pop, crafting soft, melodic songs filled with nostalgia and shadowy beauty—music perfectly suited to that moment when daylight is fading and night begins to emerge. It's the ideal soundtrack for surrendering to memories and emotions, letting your mind wander freely.
This graceful, enveloping brand of indie pop has the power to carry you somewhere else. It soothes and cradles you, while at the same time stirring something deeply moving—like hearing a song you haven't listened to in years, one that suddenly brings a flood of cherished memories rushing back.
----Indie for Bunnies
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the bittersweet wonderment of “Red Hot Dust” signals a truly enchanting debut is on the way.
—Grimy Goods
Red Hot Dust” is a gorgeous and brooding track …a synthesis of Beach House, Scott Walker, and 70s AM rock." —joy of violent movement
slightly reminiscent of Air, or, at least, what I can remember of them after my ex left the soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides in my car…
The vocals of “Red Hot Dust” … enter your ears the same way that the tide rolls in as it softens the sand. —uptohearmusic