Mirror

Flying Saucer Attack | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 25, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 26, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Drag City
• ASIN: B00003XAJB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #449,126 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Stunning, April 21, 2000

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Sara Grosky "groovewitch" (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mirror (Audio CD)

This isn't for the faint of heart. If you like those simple 1-2-3 alterna-bands, don't look here. Beautiful, noisy, shimmering layers of guitar (and two beautiful not-so-noisy short tracks) that can make my night anytime. This is even better than FSA's last one. Viva la wall of sound!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars hypnotic, January 5, 2004

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Brett Lloyd (Newport News, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mirror (Audio CD)

Not so much a whole album as it is two EPs. The first half is acoustic/psychedelic, while the other half is more dancey/shoegaze type stuff. (with the two middle tracks tying the two halves together.) Maybe not their best work, but it's worth the price for Wintersong alone...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Devastating, January 9, 2006

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LHB (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mirror (Audio CD)

I thought I'd add my two cents in light of some of the less than stellar reviews this album receives below. This was the first FSA album I bought, sound unheard, and my initial reaction--before reading the credits--was that it had the same uniquely disturbing "feel" as Pearls Before Swine's "Balaklava." I'd only heard that combination of fragile beauty and everpresent dread once before, and it made an indelible impression. Then I read that "Space 1999" was dedicated to Tom Rapp. If you ever liked Pearls Before Swine, FSA's music should strike a responsive chord, although I'm not exactly sure why. It was my first listen to "Islands" that made me a lifetime FSA fanatic. As a reviewer below put it, those distant, yet brutal, brutal beats that sound like some malevolent machine, the incessant strummed chord that sounds like an alternative edit from "Formentara Lady/A Sailors Tale," (King Crimson-Islands) and then when the feedback drone begins, eventually enveloping the entire song in a wall of menacing noise all one can do is sit there speechless. Everytime I listen to the album, I wince when "Islands" starts. I've got just about everything recorded by anybody in the shoegaze and noise genres,and while FSA are not a band for everyone, if you can find the beauty in punishing beats, overdriven guitars combined with whispered vocals and the most incredibly delicate acoutic guitar figurations imaginable, you should give this a listen. Space 1999, Islands, Chemicals and Wintersong are the standouts, but Mirrors is best appreciated in its entirety as an album. I hate to quote everyone else in this thread, but when I'm trying to describe this music to others, I always fall back on the editor's review above "like being caught outside the gloomy factory under a slate grey sky." Although it sounds not at all similar, this music goes to the same place as Sibelius's 4th Symphony and Shostakovich's harrowing one movement String Quartet #12. There's something about FSA's music that comes frighteningly close to perfection, and while some of there earlier works might realize this approach more consistently, I can't imagine being without this album. Tense, beautiful, delicate, screaming, driving, sinister, thundering blissed-out noise. If my house caught on fire, I'd go back in to rescue the FSA albums.