MIIRRORS

MIIRRORSMUSIC@GMAIL.COM
BOOKING: TREY ELDER
LICENSING & PUBLISHING: KENN GOODMAN

DISCOGRAPHY

LP1: MOTION AND PICTURERecorded at Electrical Audio, Studio B
Mixed by Brian Deck, Narwhal Studios

DEFINITIVE VERSIONRecorded at Narwhal Studios
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Brian Deck

UPCOMING SHOWS

MIDSOMMARFEST • CHICAGO, IL • 6.15.2025

PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES

Recorded in Studio B at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio along with sessions in Los Angeles and Nashville, MIIRRORS’ debut LP Motion And Picture is a cinematic soundscape of lyrical introspection and reactive abrasion, a personal timespan of disillusionment, resolve and return to hope. Waves of cascading textures blur the sonic lines between synthesizers and guitars a la My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive as atypical rhythms anchor the songs while the lead voice ascends above the band’s expanding colors.

What began as a chance encounter on an airplane between Brian McSweeney and Shawn Rios 24 years ago grew into a decades-long friendship which ignited their inevitable musical partnership. They reverse-engineered the usual process of becoming a band by prioritizing album creation over live performance while morphing the duo into a cohesive quintet of seasoned multi-instrumentalists along the way— veterans JG Shadid, Andre Miller, and Patrick Riley completed the lineup and they evolved the sound quickly, trading the stage for the tracking room.

While recording, they began releasing singles just three months before the pandemic halted the music community, but not before the public took notice with their imagined “completed” version of Jeff Buckley’s rare 1997 four-track demo “Gunshot Glitter,” with Steven Edelstone of Paste Magazinewriting, “No one has ever been able to recapture Buckley’s lightning-in-a-bottle essence since he passed in 1997. MIIRRORS come the closest of anyone.” As artists suddenly found themselves on hiatus, MIIRRORS saw opportunities for further creation despite the industry stalemate: filming a live set at Narwhal Studios in Definitive Version, shooting their video for “Nightwalk” in a barren late evening Chicago landscape during the height of the lockdown, featuring their single “Sinistry” as the lead-off track on the acclaimed Situation Chicago! 2 benefit compilation, and writing material beyond their first album while crafting their eventual live show.

Fast forward, MIIRRORS continues to pack hometown headline performances and US tour dates, continually establishing a word of mouth reputation as a band to see. They’re currently back at Electrical Audio working on their follow-up record with plans under wrap.

FEATURES / REVIEWS / INTERVIEWS

“Now their debut full-length is finally here, and if you’re wondering whether it’s worth the wait—let me reassure you: it would’ve been worth an even longer one.”
- Newcity

“You can never predict the whims of a fickle public, but as MIIRRORS work on their first full-length album, they certainly seem to have all the elements in place to be the next big thing.”
-The Chicago Reader

“Covering Buckley is a near herculean task—Buckley had one of the biggest vocal ranges in music history after all—and MIIRRORS pass with flying colors.”
-Paste Magazine

“Genre-bending compositions of epic proportions— MIIRRORS remains a bit of a mystery, but the band’s anonymity aside, listening to their stories and lyrics feels like catching up with an old friend.”
-Basement Magazine