With Stones in His Pockets

Mirror Test takes With Stones in His Pockets' dynamic, austere sound into darker and more uncanny territory, offering a delicate but ferocious grooves on 'Take Yours and Bring Me Mine,' fragile arpeggios in 'This Nature That You’ve Made,' and stuttering post-punk riffing in 'How They Met Themselves', which aims for something like John Fahey playing guitar for Gossip.

Lyrically, Mirror Test confronts difficult topics head-on, exploring the historic persecution of people with intellectual disabilities, the capitalist exploitation of the workforce, and the ghostly false lives we construct on social media.

Mirror Test takes inspiration from 'Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World', Dante Rossetti’s painting 'How They Met Themselves', and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poem 'The Romaunt of Margret' - each one a reflection on what happens when we are confronted with uncomfortable truths about ourselves.