Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror

Following intense and extensive touring in support of the first two
albums, Drab Majesty escaped to the inspirational landscapes of Athens,
Greece to channel the songs for their most ambitious album creation yet:
Modern Mirror. Blowing the dust off the antiquarian myth of Ovid's Narcissus, Drab
Majesty uses its premise as groundwork for a modern reinterpretation.
Each song tells a piece of the story, in which the listener's own self-
identity has become warped and dissociated through rapidly expanding
technology, losing touch with the origins of their own personalities.
Setting the stage as a romantic saga of antiquity, A Dialogue asks the
listener if they are truly in love amid a building wash of guitars and
reverb. Elements of classic tragedy weigh heavily in the reflection of
Modern Mirror in songs like The Other Side, possessing a fundamental
sound that is energetic, luminous and hopeful. Fusing the sonic aesthetics
of predecessors like New Order and The Cure within the cautious
instruction of Greek mythology and modern science fiction, Drab Majesty
has birthed a hybrid of dreamy malaise, captured for a future moment.
The first single, Ellipsis, romantically plays up the distorted concept of
courting through modern technology in a world that has yet to adapt,
while on Long Division, Deb's resounding guitar cascades around the
chorus shared with No Joy frontwoman Jasamine White-Gluz, wistfully
warning us against our vanity and self-obsession. Even when hope for
everlasting love peeks through in Oxytocin, a sparkling and stoic track
sung by Mona D., we are firmly reminded our fleeting existence.
Modern Mirror is a journey of self-reflection, nostalgia, love, beauty, and
heartbreak told across eight addictive and emotional synth pop anthems–a seemingly classic tale delivered unblinkingly through the frame of the
modern world.