Tales from the Mirrored Space is a drone filled slab of psychedelic electronica designed to immerse the listener in a world of dense sonic experimentation, using mostly analogue synthesizers and field recordings. The album was recorded between 2017 and 2018 and the final mix and mastering took place in August of 2018.

Album opener, Argish starts life as a slow atmospheric drone track that builds as layers of synth and electronic sounds are added to the mix, this culminates in the track heading down a noisy distorted drone path, and in doing so sets up the overall sound of the album, that of a dark sci-fi drone record, the sort of thing that would work beautifully as the soundtrack to a claustrophobic sci-fi horror movie. Shapeshifter’s Lair is up next and after another slow start it begins to slowly build from about a minute in. The track’s success lies in the fact that it doesn’t really do a great deal, it just has an oppressive, menacing feel to it. The dripping sound of the field recordings and the amount of reverb on the track give the whole thing a feeling of subterranean terrors ready to burst out of the speakers. Attention Selector comes next and veers between the dark ambient drone that we’ve already become accustomed to and stabs of harsh electronic violence. Astrochemical Rays and The Ritual of Dissolution are very similar to one another in that they sound like cues from the soundtrack to some lost claustrophobic sci-fi horror film that would fit neatly alongside Alien, Xtro and Inseminoid. The Ritual of Dissolution is the slightly stronger of the two and represents possibly my favourite on the album.

Shores of Insanity kicks the second half of the album underway; this is a really nice straightforward wall of drone piece that does exactly what it says on the tin. Transverter Waltz heads back into sci-fi drone territory and features some pretty cool space sounds in among the drones. The track is built around a repeating synth stab that reminds me a little of “Frozen Fog” by Nate Young’s horror inspired drone project Demons. Freon Flux is up next and is built around the use of field recordings, it’s a fairly sparse track that features a background drone behind various rustling sounds. The album closer Palus Somni is another sci-fi drone track that after building through its mid point takes a turn towards something more kosmische inspired.

Overall, this is a very enjoyable listen, each track draws from the wellspring of sci-fi horror soundtrack material, Gino Marinuzzi’s Planet of the Vampires soundtrack and Tristram Carey’s Quatermass and the Pit soundtrack both spring to mind at times during the listening process and I am also reminded of the soundtracks for Xtro and Inseminoid. Favourite tracks include Argish, Shapeshifter’s Lair, and The Ritual of Dissolution, however the whole album is well worth a listen.