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Yohuna “Mirroring”

“Mirroring” delivers the expected sensations of dream pop and shoegaze, or whatever you want to call music that sounds like it exists in a world where the only record label that has ever existed is 4AD. But there’s an interesting tension in Johanne Swanson’s lyrics that undercuts the romantic haze of the music, and an insecurity at the core of it that bleeds out into every texture. Swanson sings about a relationship that’s intimate enough that they begin to mirror one another, and she can’t seem to tell how she feels about this. There’s a strong implication that she can’t understand how she appears to someone else, and then is perplexed by why someone she loves would want to be more like her. The uncertainty and ambiguity really makes the song, and the structure emphasizes the open-ended feeling by starting and ending as if bracketed by ellipses.

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