Rainbow Mirror

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Rainbow Mirror
Cover of Rainbow Mirror (2017).jpg
Studio album by
Prurient
ReleasedDecember 1, 2017 (2017-12-01)
Genre
Length
  • 180:42(vinyl release)
  • 200:17(CD and digital release)
Label Profound Lore (PFL–197)
Producer Shifted
Prurient chronology
Unknown Rains
(2016)		Rainbow Mirror
(2017)		Garden of the Mutilated Paratroopers
(2019)

Rainbow Mirror is a triple album by the American musical project Prurient, the performing name of the artist Dominick Fernow. It was released on December 1, 2017 through Profound Lore Records. [1] Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Prurient project, Rainbow Mirror was released as a 4xCD (the fourth being a bonus disc) and as a 7xLP, which was distributed by Hospital Productions. [2] This Hospital Productions release bundled Rainbow Mirror with a limited cassette version of Godflesh's 2017 album, Post Self . [3] The 8-panel digipak version of the album includes a short story by Fernow and Scott Bryan Wilson. [1]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
The 4057.5/10 [5]
Exclaim! 8/10 [6]
Pitchfork 6.2/10 [7]
Resident Advisor 3.7/5 [8]

Rainbow Mirror was met with mostly positive reviews. The album received an average score of 72/100 from 5 reviews on Metacritic, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Writing for Exclaim! , Brayden Turenne said, "despite occasionally overlong runtimes, Rainbow Mirror is an album that encourages introspection and submerging oneself in their unconscious. It's a monument that both inspires and terrifies." [6] In a mixed review for the album, Louis Pattison of Pitchfork wrote, "for all its imposing scale, though, it lacks some of the dramatic finesse of classic Prurient." [7] Pattison also criticized the lack of vocals from Fernow, saying the lyrical void makes the songs lack character. [7] Andrew Ryce of Resident Advisor wrote, "At over three hours of half-lidded drone and ambient, Rainbow Mirror is one of the quietest Prurient albums, yet also one of the most demanding." [8]

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleLength
1."Barefoot God"5:38
2."Walking on Dehydrated Coral"11:12
3."Midnight Kabar"8:50
4."Chaos – Sex"14:39
Total length:40:19
Disc 2
No.TitleLength
1."Falling in the Water"15:22
2."Okinawan Burial Vaults"17:45
3."April Fool's Day Aspect Sinister"17:33
4."Cruel Worlds"15:20
Total length:66:00 106:19
Disc 3
No.TitleLength
1."Naturecum"14:27
2."Blue Kimono Over Corpse"15:08
3."Path Is Short"16:00
4."Buddha Strangled in Vines (Part One)"9:56
5."Buddha Strangled in Vines (Part Two)"18:52
Total length:74:23 180:42
Disc 4 (bonus)
No.TitleLength
1."Lazarus Flamethrower Sleepwalk"10:12
2."Buddhist State"9:23
Total length:19:35 200:17

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [9]

Music
Additional personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 "PRURIENT – Rainbow Mirror 4xCD". profoundlorerecords.com. Profound Lore Records . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Rainbow Mirror Bandcamp entry (with press release)". bandcamp.com. Bandcamp . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bowe, Miles (30 October 2017). "Prurient details 7xLP album Rainbow Mirror". factmag.com. Fact . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Rainbow Mirror by Prurient Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
  5. ↑ Kenny, Brody (December 7, 2017). "Review: Prurient takes his time across the drawn-out, dark Rainbow Mirror". The 405. Archived from the original on December 7, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  6. 1 2 Turenne, Brayden. "Prurient - Rainbow Mirror". exclaim.ca. Exclaim! . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 Pattison, Louis. "Prurient - Rainbow Mirror". pitchfork.com. Pitchfork . Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  8. 1 2 Ryce, Andrew. "Prurient - Rainbow Mirror". residentadvisor.net. Resident Advisor . Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  9. ↑ Rainbow Mirror (vinyl liner notes). Prurient. Hospital Productions. 2018. HOS-597. Retrieved April 4, 2018.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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