Yet another one I took a sheer gamble on. Went into this one expecting something along the lines of Shoes, Rubinoos, heck maybe even the Bay City Rollers. In the grand scheme of things,
Mirrour had sort of a bedroom DIY thing in mind instead, with precious little of the aesthetics I had predicted. They were certainly situated in the pop/rock realm, but in spite of the serious visages gracing the album jacket this L.A. quartet were a cheeky lot, with no less than two topical numbers ("It's Only School" and "Get the Edge") pertaining to the nature of compulsory education. "Shattered" is the strongest and catchiest thing
Black and White has going for it, yet might have amounted to something more compelling in the hands of a full-fledged power-pop band, which for better or worse Mirrour didn't quite embody. I should mention both guitars and keys are employed here, the latter to an almost cozy and cutesy effect. Another feather in their cap would be an
Emitt Rhodes production credit...but how would a bunch of teenage '80s kids know Rhodes from a can of paint?
B&W isn't so much a disappointing record as it is an unlikely and anticlimactic one.
There's an above average amount of surface noise on this disk that I did my best to remedy. If it's a blemish-free version you're seeking, in doing my research on Mirrour I learned that an expanded, 40th anniversary version of this exists on streaming outlets including
Spotify and
Apple Music, along with a host of entirely separate albums by them, though it's not clear when they were recorded. One would think these other recordings would entail a considerably more mature incarnation of the band, and though I haven't really had the chance to delve in myself it all looks promising.
01. It's Only School
02. Double talk
03. Shattered
04. Modern Man
05. Shine it On
06. Get the Edge
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