Mirrors

Lights And Offerings

Released:

2011-02-28

Comments:

Their debut and what a fine one! This was released in the UK on CD in February 2011 and on vinyl in May 2011.

The German CD release from March 2011 contains two bonus tracks. The transparent sticker on the jewelcase has quotes from a few reviews.

Mirrors performed at Michalsky's StyleNite show on the 8th of July 2011 in Berlin, Germany. The album was given away for free that night in a special Mirrors bag. These CD's have a normal white sticker on the jewelcase with info to contact the record company.

Greece had a unique 2CD edition which was released at the end of June 2011. It is packed as a fold-out digipack in a black slipcase.

A unique promotional CDr was issued in Greece to promote the album. It features the 2010 Hamburg concert in a printed insert. 25 copies were made according to the label and most, if not all, copies come with a double sided A4 press release.

A nice box set was made to promote the album. This box was limited to 300 copies of which approx 60 were destroyed due to the stencilling process and approx 40 were put up for sale for a short period of time through the label's website. The promotional box contains the album on CD, the Ways To An End and Hide And Seek 7" singles, a promotional photo and a biography on a double sided paper.

As per the previous paragraph, the promotional box was also put up for sale. This box was enhanced by adding a hand-written number on the inside of the lid, plus two additional 7" singles which were Into The Heart and The White EP.

Three record stores had a limited bonus CD sold together with the CD album. Each bonus disc came in its own die-cut card sleeve:

• RecordStore.co.uk: MIRRORS004 which contains a mixtape
• RoughTrade: MIRRORS005 which contains a mixtape
• Skint Records: MIRRORS006 which contains 10 remixes

iTunes had an LP version which contains five videos, an album commentary and six live tracks from their 2010 Hamburg, Germany, gig.

The 2010 Hamburg, Germany, gig was later made available as a promotional CD release in March 2011 and given away during a number of Facebook competitions. This CD contains the full concert: all 6 iTunes live songs plus the full intro. The band originally planned to release this CD as part of the album at a later stage, but these plans were cancelled.

A 5 track album sampler was released in September 2010. It contains mixes of the well-known album tracks that were created on the 29th of August 2010. Note that Look At Me has a slightly longer intro and Searching In The Wilderness has an edited intro.

A Belgian promo CDr exists which was released by N.E.W.S. which features the mixes from August 2010. There are some minor differences though:

• There is a cross-fade between Fear Of Drowning and Look At Me
• Something On Your Mind has the first 17 seconds of the intro of Searching In The Wilderness stuck at the end

Two reference CD's exist from 29/08/10. Each one comes in a plastic sleeve with a printed insert. The 'normal' one has a nearly identical tracklisting as the released album. The second one has an alternate tracklisting. The mixes and mastering are slightly different and the aforementioned album sampler has its songs taken from these reference CD's. These CD's were not meant for the public and were for in-house usage only.

A white label test pressing exists of the vinyl edition. Only three copies are said to have been produced and they come in a plain inner protection sleeve with no outer sleeve.

Tracklisting:

1. Fear Of Drowning
2. Look At Me
3. Into The Heart
4. Write Through The Night
5. Ways To An End
6. Hide And Seek
7. Somewhere Strange
8. Something On Your Mind
9. Searching In The Wilderness
10. Secrets

Tracklisting German CD release:

1. Fear Of Drowning
2. Look At Me
3. Into The Heart
4. Write Through The Night
5. Ways To An End
6. Hide And Seek
7. Somewhere Strange
8. Something On Your Mind
9. Searching In The Wilderness
10. Secrets
11. Visions Of You
12. Perfectly Still

Tracklisting Greek 2CD release:

• CD One

1. Fear Of Drowning
2. Look At Me
3. Into The Heart
4. Write Through The Night
5. Ways To An End
6. Hide And Seek
7. Somewhere Strange
8. Something On Your Mind
9. Searching In The Wilderness
10. Secrets

• CD Two

1. Broken By Silence
2. Toe The Line
3. Lights And Offerings (Moshi Moshi Version)
4. Falls By Another Name
5. Perfectly Still
6. Visions Of You
7. Into The Heart (Richard X Radio Mix)
8. Into The Heart (Greek Girls Are Not Easy Radio Mix)
9. Secrets (Andy McCluskey Remix)

Tracklisting vinyl release:

• Side A

1. Fear Of Drowning
2. Look At Me
3. Into The Heart

• Side B

1. Write Through The Night
2. Ways To An End
3. Hide And Seek

• Side C

1. Visions Of You
2. Somewhere Strange
3. Perfectly Still

• Side D

1. Something On Your Mind
2. Searching In The Wilderness
3. Secrets

Tracklisting iTunes LP release:

1. Fear Of Drowning
2. Look At Me
3. Into The Heart
4. Write Through The Night
5. Ways To An End
6. Hide And Seek
7. Somewhere Strange
8. Something On Your Mind
9. Searching In The Wilderness
10. Secrets
11. Fear Of Drowning (Live in Hamburg)
12. Ways To An End (Live in Hamburg)
13. Write Through The Night (Live in Hamburg)
14. Into The Heart (Live in Hamburg)
15. Searching In The Wilderness (Live in Hamburg)
16. Hide And Seek (Live in Hamburg)
17. Mirrors Lights And Offerings album commentary
18. Ways To An End (video)
19. Into The Heart (video)
20. Hide And Seek (video)
21. Fear Of Drowning (video)
22. Look At Me (video)

Tracklisting promotional live bonus CD release:

1. Intro
2. Fear Of Drowning
3. Ways To An End
4. Write Through The Night
5. Into The Heart
6. Searching In The Wilderness
7. Hide And Seek

Tracklisting 2010 sampler promo CD:

1. Hide And Seek (29/08/10 Mix)
2. Look At Me (29/08/10 Mix)
3. Searching In The Wilderness (29/08/10 Mix)
4. Something On Your Mind (29/08/10 Mix)
5. Write Through The Night (29/08/10 Mix)

Label – Catalogue number:

CD album: Skint Records – BRASSIC063

LP album: Skint Records – BRASSIC063LP

Box set: Skint Records – none

Digital album: Skint Records – unknown

CD album (RecordStore.co.uk bonus): Skint Records – MIRRORS004

CD album (RoughTrade bonus): Skint Records – MIRRORS005

CD album (Skint Records bonus): Skint Records – MIRRORS006

CD album (Germany): PIAS Germany – 556.A012.020

CD album (Greece): Undo – CDUN31

Promotional CD sampler: Skint Records – none

Promotional box: Skint Records – none

Promotional CDr (Belgium): N.E.W.S. – none

Promotional live CD: Skint Records – none