American duo MIRROR MARK took it upon themselves to mash up two extremely different, but much loved tracks, and nail it. Said tracks would be ‘Lovesong’ by The Cure and ‘Nightcall’ by Kavinsky, tracks from opposing genres and eras.
Mirror Mask is the musical love spawn of Austin (Texas Y’all) based Taylor Cole Bartholomew and Doug West. They describe their style as being a part of the American Dark Wave, and generally speaking they write music that does have a sinister kind of feel, in a bit of an upbeat way. Overall their music is a hard to describe sound, so this mash up is definitely not something you could have predicted, which is always the best kind of mash up.
As you should be aware, The Cure are arguably one of England’s most famous rock exports, straight out of the better era known to most as the 1970s. The original version of ‘Lovesong’ is far from Kavinsky’s dark, French infused, electro house track 'Nightcall’ made famous by the Ryan Gosling film Drive. One track is fun, dance out rock music; one is very ominous, very electro.
Legitimately that probably makes the whole thing sound like a mess. Most brains would not think to smoosh two such tracks together. Mirror Mask are clearly ahead of the game. What they have created is something that sounds both clean and smooth, and filled to the brim with a beat you can move to, and sounds you can get lost and mesmerised in. It plays true tribute to both tracks, and creates something that tells it’s very own story, and that story sounds like it belongs in the 80s.
Words by Madeline Kilby
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