A glorious slice of instrumental bedroom lo-fi, ‘Horns to the future’ melds minimal synthesised percussion with obnoxious D.I. guitar, scratchy distortion baked in. Refreshingly absent are the super-production techniques of the last decade – here everything is wonderfully thin, marginally incongruous, a demo of a demo of a demo, and all the better for it.
I don’t know much about Nitemirror and can’t find much online, but they do have an old E.P. called “I hate the internet and I fucking hate you” so I guess that makes sense. Everything about the project screams ‘half-assed’, and it’s in this lack of refinement that Nitemirror finds its energy. It’s easy for this sort of understated, lo-fi indie to be either a bit fucking mopey or gratingly hip, but there’s a sense of humour here, and it shows. It’s simple stuff, but so unadorned as to make it arrogantly fragile, the riffs interspersed with major lilts and a nod to hardcore punk minus all of the actual hardcore punk, like hearing Pat Smear try out a new Germs song on a broken guitar in the basement of your parents house at Christmas.
As I type this I’ve discovered a video for a new(ish) Nitemirror track, ‘Terrorwear’ which pleasingly sounds not much like ‘Horns to the future’, equally lo-fi but with some vocals and a slightly more normal guitar. I’m going to go ahead and assume it’s the same human/band, and recommend you check that out too. If it’s not the same person then, I don’t know, enjoy your free promotion, Nitemirror number 2.
Links:
https://maximalismrecords.com/nitemirror/
https://nitemirror.bandcamp.com
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