Blood For the ReturnMirage · 2014

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“Mirage is Robin Nydal, a 19-year-old who lives in Los Angeles and records his music alone, live, to a single microphone.  As a result, his songs sound crackly, unreliable, and not entirely present–the frequencies have big missing-teeth gaps in them. But the basic DNA of his songs, once you drill past the pocked surface, blooms with beauty: there is a wealth of gorgeous, stacked choral singing on "”