DJ Sundae - Mirrors Vinyl 2x LP Ltd /500 Copies Mint New Copy. In Hand

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DJ Sundae - Mirrors

Amazing New Compilation in similar vein to ‘Sky Girl’.

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Now sold out everywhere - and for good reason.

DJ Sundae curates an imperial soundtrack to the liminal zone, an unfathomably well thought-out, delicately assembled selection of seemingly unconnected songs that pulls from slowcore, folk, dreampop and synthwave, spanning eras and styles so imperceptibly that it feels like a singular body of work. Truly, one of the most beautiful, special records of the year.

DJ Sundae has done it many times before, a selector par-excellence with impeccable taste but also a good understanding that obscurity for obscurity's sake doesn't cut it - there’s equal treasure to be found in familiar names, played out-of-context. A quick poke through the tracklisting here wont tell you much about anything to be truthful, in fact maybe look at it after you’ve listened through - you’ll recognise most of the names, but the way in which the songs have been selected and sequenced really is nothing short of atmospheric alchemy.

‘Mirrors' was commissioned as the soundscape for an exhibition of archival photographs and work from Richard Baron and Realf Heygate that reflects on the hundred-year history of Lille's Établissement Public de Santé Mentale (EPSM) - a public health institution specialised in the management of mental disorders. It's supposed to take in the hospital's evolution from an asylum in 1825 to a centre that provides more dialled in care in the modern age. What could have so easily been a heavy handed set of reverb-drenched soundscapes and hauntological mothballs is instead an examination of what made classic compilations like Les Disques Du Crépuscule's 'From Brussels With Love' such perennial gemstones. Sundae prioritises context and feeling over everything, opening his set with Robert Haigh's heartbreaking solo piano jaunt 'Impromptu' - a dazzlingly clever private press moodpiece from the artist best known as Omni Trio, from long before he defined an era with 'Renegade Snares'.

We snap into the present with an out-of-time cut from Aberdeen-based singer-songwriter Alan Davidson, aka Kitchen Cynics; 'Spiderwebs', a sticky ooze of psyche-y synths, echoed Scottish DIY folk and Laurel Canyon organs. Veteran outsider Christina Carter picks up the thread from here with 'Quiet Nights', a sedate, skeletally beguiling track from 2008's 'Masque Femine', a low-key CDr from the peak "New Weird America" era. Even the Yo La Tengo selection is a few footsteps from the well-trodden path: 'By Two's' is a groggy and uncharacteristically dubby organ-led experiment that appeared on 2009's mostly overlooked 'Popular Songs' and hooks neatly into Sundae’s mystical tapestry, serving as the glue between Brian Reitzell's heaving 'Ozu Choral’, Mark Clifford and Mira Calix's lysergic 'You and I’, and HTRK's stripped-to-the-bone 'Death Is a Dream'. There's plenty of deeper-than-deep cuts here too, from Headfall's Bark Psychosis-indebted instrumental 'Places I Went Because of You' and 'Presume Too Far' from Roy Montgomery's short-lived Dissolve project, to the nine-minute 'Brace', a neo-new age fantasy from the incredible Lucy Duncombe.

'Mirrors' is one of those perfectly formed objets d'art that’s so much more than the sum of its parts; it’ll no doubt open up a web of side-quests and off-track diversions for curious listeners, but primarily it will remind many of you that there are profound pleasures to be found right around you