Vanity Mirror // Super Fluff Forever LP

カナダ／アメリカのインディーバンドVanity Mirrorが、2025年10月にトロントのオールジャンルレーベルWe Are Busy Bodiesからリリースしたレコードです。

インディーロック13曲を収録。

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12" black vinyl.
Edition of 500. 

Tracklist:

1. White Butterfly 03:07
2. The Apple Tree 02:33
3. Anna M 03:10
4. Plastic Heart 03:43
5. Mr. Watchmaker 02:37
6. Jack of all Trades 02:04
7. Cavities 00:43
8. Painted Blue 03:58
9. Snoopy Valentine 02:26
10. I Don't Want To Hold Your Hand 03:58
11. The Dooryard Gate 02:40
12. Tea 'N Toast 00:58
13. The Village Square 03:54

Text excerpt by We Are Busy Bodies:

"For those just tuning into their programme, Vanity Mirror is the name under which the transnational musical duo of Canadian singer-songwriter-producer Brent Randall and Los Angeles-based drummer Johnny Toomey release music. Their debut record, Puff (2023), was a masterclass in lo-fidelity rock and roll, weaving together various strands of twentieth-century pop into a variegated sonic tapestry that is both rich in melancholic longing and radiant with technicolor exuberance.

The follow-up album, Super Fluff Forever, arrives over two years after the release of Puff. During that time, the band toured through Europe and California, while Randall split his time between Toronto and Monrovia, California, working on several albums in collaboration with his wife and honorary third member of Vanity Mirror, Madeline Doctor.

For the most part, Super Fluff Forever was entirely written, performed, recorded, and mixed by Randall in Toronto and Monrovia. True to his minimalist bedroom style, he used a laptop, three microphones, a few guitars, and an old piano found on Craigslist. Following the process established on their first album, Randall would send tunes through the wires of the internet over to Toomey’s Los Angeles basement, where he would lay down drums and send them back for mixdown. Additional vocals and piano overdubs were contributed by Doctor thereafter.

Compared to Puff, Super Fluff Forever explores new stylistic terrain. The album plays like a cabinet of bedroom pop curiosities, filled with sonic signifiers that point in many directions: ringing six-string power chords, Echoplex-treated flute pirouettes, effervescent vocal harmonies, sepia-toned parlor piano rags, blurry Casio synthesizer mirages, fuzztone melodies, and wistful jangle-pop arpeggios. Unlike the ornate baroque arrangements of Randall’s earlier work with the Pinecones, or the kaleidoscopic sunshine pop of his and Toomey’s other band, Electric Looking Glass, these songs are tied together by a shared minimalism in both arrangement and production. There are sly winks and reverent nods to the past throughout, but taken as a whole, the album feels like it exists outside of time and space."

Artist : Vanity Mirror

Label : We Are Busy Bodies

cat no : WABB-215

Release date : 24th October 2025