DISCOGRAPHY
UPCOMING SHOWS
SOUNDSCAPE NORTHWEST • PORTLAND, OR • 4.27–5.2 2026
What began as a chance airplane encounter between Brian McSweeney and Shawn Rios
grew into a yearslong friendship igniting their inevitable collaboration that became
Chicago’s MIIRRORS.
They initially prioritized album creation over live performance, trading the stage for the tracking room, morphing into a collaborative quintet of veteran multi-instrumentalists— JG Shadid, Andre Miller, and Patrick Riley completing the sound with waves of cascading textures blurring the lines between synthesizers and guitars a la My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive and Grizzly Bear. Songwriting still at the core, Rios’ atypical and linear rhythms anchor the songs while McSweeney’s voice ascends above the band’s expanding colors.
2023’s efforts surrounding the release of Motion and Picture saw them pivot to becoming a new live band to see at tour stops in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, and Nashville. Shooting their performance doc Definitive Version and their video for “Nightwalk” while continually selling out rooms at home has kept them busy in a post-Pandemic landscape. MIIRRORS will soon announce a Midwest to West Coast tour anchored by the inaugural Soundscape Northwest festival in Portland, Oregon this spring. They’re currently wrapping up their upcoming EP Songs You Thought Existed and their untitled second full-length album.
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-Paste Magazine
-Basement Magazine