Mirror Mirror, The Soul and the Machine, Reverb

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the strangest of them all? The answer is probably the Olympia three-piece MIRROR MIRROR. Jason Campbell (his name may ring a bell in Spokane music circles), Ben Robertson and Kelly Michael Fox create the band’s electronic, shoegaze, psychedelic sound. The band recently signed with Seattle's Aphonia Recordings, but they just moved to Spokane. Their dissonant (yet somehow melodic) material attempts to “create a soundtrack for the night” and in doing so sounds like malfunctioning machines clashing against one another, layered underneath blurred, almost dark, wave vocals. Each track might sound like industrial chaos were it not for the steadfast, singular guitar rhythms that hold it all together. This isn't exactly the music that transfers well to a live audience – headphones pick up the strange and sublet nuisances much better – but it'll be loud, noisy and definitely worth your while.