Maria & the Mirrors - Gemini : Enjoy My Life

Maria & the Mirrors - Gemini : Enjoy My Life Exotic Pylon Records, 2012 Director/Animator : James B Stringer Photography : Willie Nash Maria & the Mirrors are a London-based FFM trio who subvert the frantic overload of power electronics, dancehall and noise by injecting it with a luridly wasted shot of exotic glamour. Collaborating with Mark Rutherford (one half of Kodiak, the Numbers-signed future-flash electronic duo who scored a hit with the celebrated Spreo Superbus earlier this year) Gemini Enjoy My Life is the follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Travel Sex EP and significantly up’s the production value of that raw blast whilst simultaneously pushing their noise to the point of rupture. It’s pure bliss-panic, sirens and sub-bass - an extreme carnivalesque collapse that will take your head off. Mudchute on the flip is, frankly, fucking terrifying -- a possible nervous breakdown in the dancehall, a relentless pulverising captivating explosion of gabba gamelan and b