Mirror by Xanax

Description by Dylan McCartney:
“You watch as the picture turns into a wasteland.”

A fitting sentiment from Falmouth UK’s Charlie Murphy--the mind behind XANAX--in opening track “Field of Sight”.
He follows the line with the bestial roar of a hungry jaguar, and one can clearly picture the glass of a mirror shattering with a spray of violence, fractaling into sequences of jagged shards, which while splayed on the floor, resemble a complex code...
Such is the world within this wide-eyed and lurid collection of five songs, titled, simply--“Mirror”.

There’s a freak pulse throughout these tracks which is impossible to predict at first listen-- abnormal electronic blasts of crushed hyperactive synthesizers racing on a seemingly autonomous route through a digital labyrinth of cyborg funk and vicious industrial rhythm, helmed and punctuated by the angry, echoing observations of Mr. Murphy, who shouts and pleads with conviction on the sickly society which seems well and truly lost within the maze of code and algorithm we’ve long since surrendered our souls to. The warnings prophesied by the likes of Bourbonese Qualk and Clock DVA are amplified here to meet the increasingly sinister and frantic modernities of the year 2026.

These aren’t cute dancefloor numbers for your DJ night in the back room of the pricey cocktail bar.
Put this on, full blast, in a small room with white walls, empty save for a mirror hanging on the wall, and see if you can make it through the 12:55 to the end without the throbbing temptation to smash the mirror and decipher the code it leaves behind in the wreckage. I dare you."