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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