The songs have that mix of casual and and growly vocals that bring to mind scenes of parading egos in enclosed and sweaty spaces. The opening track ‘When I Found You’ is the connection between Mike Tod’s solo stuff and the garage band sound before the tempo gradually increases across the release. ‘Break a Ghost Part 2’ is a slow sneering challenge, the prelude to the bar brawl in ‘Part 3’, the same song as Part 2 but sped up to have a swaggering sloppiness, a frantic but loose urgency that doesn’t adhere to any sort of sense outside of whiskey and hot smoky rooms.

We have written about Mike Tod a few times (here and here) and he featured on HI54LOFI’s side of our Canada Day mixtape. If you are as big a fan of him as we are, I’m sure you will enjoy No. 0.

Grab it over at The Flying Blackbyrds Bandcamp page for a price of your choice.

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Far from being some expansive void, the space in Space Mirror is a landscape that is teeming with alien lifeforms, a whole host of strange things crawling and flying and hovering around in ways which we do not understand. This is space as an environment, a frontier for us to delve into and explore, with sights to see and lessons to learn.

As well as being reminiscent of 60s sci-fi, there is also an aboriginal elemental to Space Mirror. Underneath the seething electronic environment there is a native American culture, a scene of people living off the land and seeing extraterrestrial beings above a dark Earth. Maybe this is the title’s mirror, a reflection of a human existence in the colossal expanse of space, one which takes centuries to bounce back to us.

Space Mirror is out on the 29th July on Kranky.

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