Modern Mirror

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Modern Mirror
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 12, 2019 (2019-07-12)
Genre
Length42:47
Label Dais Records
Producer Joshua Eustis, Deb Demure
Drab Majesty chronology
The Demonstration
(2017)
Modern Mirror
(2019)
Singles from Modern Mirror
  1. "Ellipsis"
    Released: April 16, 2019
  2. "Oxytocin"
    Released: June 18, 2019
  3. "Out of Sequence"
    Released: July 11, 2019

Modern Mirror is the third studio album by the American darkwave band Drab Majesty. The album was released on July 12, 2019, by Dais Records. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 80/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
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On its release, Modern Mirror received favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic , which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80, based on 6 reviews. [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."A Dialogue"4:22
2."The Other Side"6:04
3."Ellipsis"5:06
4."Noise of the Void"5:32
5."Dolls in the Dark"4:51
6."Oxytocin"3:55
7."Long Division"5:04
8."Out of Sequence"7:53
Total length:42:47

Personnel

Modern Mirror personnel adapted from Discogs. [7]

Drab Majesty

Guest musicians

Production

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