SMOKEY MIRROR
SMOKEY MIRROR “Smokey Mirror”
By Octopi Mills
Here again we have something from Rise Above records, who need no further explanation. We have something called SMOKEY MIRROR. Dallas, Texas is the origin of the act. "Invisible Hand" opens the album with energetic blues based rock falling into the greener pastures of what we must call "stoner" without under emphasizing this phrase. Energetic, it is, and the sound and songs are not far from your typical all-out garage band of generic means, though perhaps with a wider array of psychedelic effects added here and there.
"Fried Vanilla Spider Trapeze" is actually the name of one of the songs. It's an unforgivable blues number that turns legal age and legal limit soon enough to make it post-forgettable. Like a cheap fling, it is here and gone, doing things that are transient and foolish. The songs fail to become too important other than a sort of thrill- the sort of thrill one might get from popping a wheely on a tricycle or hammering on and off a string in a trill whilst stoned in the basement by a stack of buckets and paint cans that may have, at the time, seemed to be of much greater vastness and importance than afterwards. They let loose doughnuts and hookers in this pastoral greenery and goof off for the duration of the album, living that dream of a young man's game found in the trade of rock and roll. Perhaps they are in it for the long haul, or perhaps they will end up in that great bin that so many do? I cannot say for certain as they seem to have found some acclaim in the live scenes of today. Mess around music it is, for the thrill of it's own means.