MH-249 Caural - Mirrors For Eyes Caural returns with Mirrors For Eyes, his second release for Mush, and the proper follow-up to his last cohesive full-length effort, 2002’s Stars On My Ceiling (Chocolate Industries). Continuing to build tracks of intricate sound splices over daring drum programming, Caural pushes the fine art of headphone music forward, with surprises around every beat. Hrishikesh Hirway, of One AM Radio, Paul Amitai, and Jacob Croegaert add stirringly sweet complimentary vocals to Caural’s already beautiful and melodic production on the tracks “Cold Hands,” “Cruel Fate of Spring,” and "Only Time Will Know," while Chicago MC Racecar, of the group Modill, laces “Lady” with a throwback rhyme in the spirit of Native Tongues. The brilliance of the instrumental passages and the standout guest vocal spots solidify Mirrors For Eyes as Caural’s most fully realized album to date.

Tracklist 01. Dead Armies 02. Re-Experience Any Moment You Choose 03. Cold Hands (Feat. Hrishikesh Hirway) 04. I Won't Race You 05. Hallucination Broadcast 06. Transition Suite, Part I - Lady (Feat. Racecar) 07. Transition Suite, Part II - Papillon 08. Make Us Invisible 09. Cruel Fate Of Spring (Feat. Paul Amitai) 10. Sending You Colors 11. Only Time Will Know (Feat. Jacob Croegaert)

Release Details Release Date: 10/17/2006   Running Time: 50:22   Download/Available/$7.00 2XLP/Available/$10.00 CD/Available/$10.00 Territory: World

Reviews Summary

Very moving compositions for easy listening - Exclaim! / Something to luxuriate in - Aiding & Abetting / An accomplished and colorful affair - DJ / This record is pure joy - Okayplayer / Total enjoyable experience - Turntable Lab / Very recommended - Word

Reviews

30 Music / 40 Versions / Aiding & Abetting / Audiversity / Boomkat / BPM / CMJ / DJ / Exclaim! / Grooves / Igloo / Intake / Okayplayer / Orlando Weekly / Paper Thin Walls / Remix / Textura / Turntable Lab / Urb / Urb / Word / XLR8R /

So what happens when you mix hip-hop beats with South Asian influences and a shoegaze penchant for noise and try to force them all to exist together in that nebulous world of “experimental” music? Ask Zachary Mastoon, the multi-instrumentalist that is Caural. Mirror For Eyes is somewhat schizophrenic, sometimes working with smooth hip-hop beats and other times regressing into the cacophonous smashing of a rock band going all out at the end of their set. As for vocals, they range from ethereal (read: creepy) tones to slick rhymes to less-impressive Light FM-style melodies. Caural is eclectic to say the least, but he definitely has focused strengths—he’s at his best when working more with beats and less with noise—and when on display, those tracks stand miles ahead of the rest. A broad scope of influences can definitely be an advantage, but as Mirrors For Eyes shows, it still helps to narrow your concentration. - CMJ