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Motion and Picture

by MIIRRORS

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1.
Parallax 04:01
Warming yourself by the fire Hum with the sound of the wire Come to the front of the line No, that’s not blood on my teeth Just come in here off the street Into the place where we eat Proll, you’ll do it forever You’ll soldier on and on With a pocket of pills Or whatever gets you by Boy, you’re a hero to me Working out equality But why is it taking so long? My mountain home Leave us alone Prolls, you’ll do it forever You’ll soldier on and on With a respirator Or whatever gets you by Is anybody still alive? Am I alone in a cemetery or a video game? With poison eyes all rolling over my spine To be known You say you never had much But maybe you can give some if you want
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Nightwalk 04:14
Nightwalk Down a long hall To where the voice calls from the dark Daydreams On a split screen Measures what’s seen What’s come and gone Pushing up and starting over Making all your promises to pretend it’s not the end Nightwalk Now so far gone Only follows to a fault Pushing up and starting over You would break your promises In a fever to recover what was never really there Would you wait until it’s over just to keep your promises? In a fever to discover what was never really there
4.
Sinistry 04:16
Repetition Turn it into a commission Eyes wide Eyes wide We tell you that we see it, but we don’t Yeah, but we don’t Why resist us? We are here for your assistance Eyes wide Eyes wide Is there something you would like us to know, that we don’t? Now you belong You belong to the fold We will give you something you can take to keep your mind right Mind right I wish I could remember, but I don’t Yeah, but I don’t The eyes are glistening And they’re wrong When the voices in your head come to reckon When you take a look at yourself, have mercy Oh, the horrors, oh the dreads In the darkness, when you’re reeling out of control Oh, have mercy There is nothing left to say We are waiting with forgiveness for you to beg For mercy
5.
As I walk among the fields and forests Concrete’s raining on my head I don’t know if I can feel anymore A voice is saying there’s something to see And the heavens open up around us Showing everything I don’t understand You say one day I’m gonna know my name Then I wont be ashamed But why would I be? It’s something you can tell someone You’ve got to learn it for yourself And nobody’s gonna show you how to be With a sea of choices all around us There’s a voice bleating in my head Saying just go bravely now Past invisible lines Then somebody said just get to the chorus Trapped in a box Tears running down your face saying pray for me now Cause I don’t feel it anymore But nothing good is free It’s something you can tell someone You’ve got to learn it for yourself And nobody’s gonna show you how to be
6.
Knockoff 04:44
It’s your time You didn’t even know it Just take your time, cause everybody cares It must be right if everybody does it It must be right if everybody’s there I feel something creeping Gonna go back and see where I went wrong I sold my joy for reason Gonna go back and see where I belong They stole your eyes They climbed up on your back And they told you lies Rolled away your fear Then you just disappear You breathe it as you covet But you have it all So see it while it’s there I don’t care I wanna see it I feel something creeping Gonna go back and see where I went wrong I sold my joy for reason Gonna go back and see where I belong I feel something creeping Gonna go back and see where I went wrong I sold my joy for reason Gonna go back and see where I belong
7.
When your mind is gone When you’ve taken so little care When your words have returned When you found out When it’s more than your share When you’ve gone for the x on the spot When you find nothing there Where do we go? I don’t know It’s just another season What do we fear? I don’t know It’s just another feeling we push down What do we do? I don’t know It’s gonna take a little time When you feel the envious coming all All up in your junk When you rise to the times but you don’t know You don’t know what to want When you’re pushing a boulder to the top When it’s coming undone Where do we go? I don’t know It’s just another season What do we fear? I don’t know It’s just another feeling we push down What do we do? I don’t know It’s gonna take a little time to rewind Where do we go? I don’t know It’s just another demon We fight another demon Am I gonna give it up, give it up, give it up? Am I gonna give it up? Am I gonna live it up, live it up, live it up? Live it up Where do we go? I don’t know It’s just another season What do we fear? I don’t know It’s just another feeling we push down What do we do? I don’t know It’s gonna take a little time to rewind Where do we go? I don’t know It’s just another demon When your mind is gone (you’re just another dreamer) When you’ve taken so little care (you’re just another dreamer) When your mind is gone (you find another meaning) When you’ve taken so little care (you find another meaning)
8.
Spasmatic 04:04
Stop kneeling if you mean it And lift your voice just above a scream Bound up by the voice behind Whisper your master, your memory Kept close as a secret The simple song that you’ll never sing Come to this house haunted Possessed by what you have never seen So wanted, so willing Next to my brother, my enemy Broken, the connection When will you say it like a summary And now you want to be something that you know you’ll never be Someone told you what you oughta do Like a good boy Just keep running away from sweet temptation Piece by piece, you’re gonna give it away But someone’s taking now And so you’ll kill to be something Tell them what you want You’ve got to say it like a summary I feel it, so peaceful Just like a wave coming over me So wanted, so willing Next to my brother, my enemy The voices, the voices Tell you to say it like a summary You want to be something that you know you’ll never be Someone told you what you oughta do Like a good boy Just keep running away from sweet temptation Piece by piece, you’re gonna give it away But someone’s taking now And so you kill to be something Tell them what you want You’ve gotta say it like a summary And now you want to be something that you know you’ll never be Someone told you what you Looking for something perfect that you’ve never seen Someone told you what you ought to do Like a good boy Just keep running away from sweet temptation Piece by piece, you’re gonna give it away But someone’s taking now And so you kill to be something Tell them what you want You’ve gotta say it like a summary So say it now, so say it You’ve gotta say it like a summary So say it now, so say it You’ve gotta say it like a summary
9.
I’m a wolf in sheepskin Coming to find Coming to win your heart No one is changing, just disappointed And silent as you’re closing your eyes Ooh, ooh it won’t be long I’m a wolf in sheepskin Never saw me come in And now you’re screaming as I’m blowing down your house And I’m coming Ooh, ooh it won’t be long Ooh, ooh and it won’t be long It won’t be long It won’t be long Ooh, ooh it won’t be long Ooh, and it won’t be long
10.
Olivet 01:21

about

What began as a chance encounter on an airplane between Brian McSweeney and Shawn Rios 22 years ago grew into a decades long friendship which ignited the inevitable musical partnership that formed Chicago’s MIIRRORS. They reverse-engineered the usual process of becoming a band by prioritizing album creation over live performance while at their own pace, morphing the duo into a cohesive quintet of seasoned multi-instrumentalists along the way- veterans Dmitri Rakhuba, Andre Miller, and Patrick Riley completed the lineup and they evolved the collective sound quickly, momentarily trading the stage for the tracking room.
Recorded in Studio B at Electrical Audio along with sessions in Los Angeles and Nashville, their
upcoming debut LP Motion And Picture is a cinematic soundscape of honest lyrical introspection and reactive abrasion, a personal timespan of disillusionment, resolve and return of hope. Waves of cascading textures blur the sonic lines between synthesizers and guitars a la My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive as Rios’s atypical rhythms anchor the songs while McSweeney’s voice ascends beyond Miller’s/ Riley’s/ Rakhuba’s expanding colors.

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released March 24, 2023

Brian McSweeney
Shawn Rios
Dmitri Rakhuba
Patrick Riley
Andre Miller

With:
Matt Johnson-Drums, Cymbals
Matt Perich- Guitars, Synthesizer
Adrian Walther- Bass Guitar
Dorian Duffy-Bass Guitar
David Davidson- Violin, Viola
Brent Milligan-Cello
Danny Mitchell- Trumpet
Paul Thacker- Baritone Saxaphone


Produced by Brian McSweeney and Shawn Rios
Mastered by Anthony Gravino

Engineering- Gregoire Yeche, Nick Broste, Brian McSweeney, Blair Sinta, Joshua Niles
Mixing- Brian Deck, Narwhal Studios
Mastering- Anthony Gravino, High Cross Sound
Art/Design- Shawn Rios and Rogelio Gamez

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