Babel’s seemingly simple composition for “Mirrors” lets the song’s arc of heartbreak, breakup and reconciliation hit as more melancholic than painful. The subtlety of the tone of resignation in the early part of the song as it flows into acceptance and then evolves into hope is remarkable in showing how often our hearts and minds can so easily switch from one feeling to another once our situational comprehension shifts and how affection doesn’t need to go through a torturous and dramatic process. Not if you’re an adult who understands that no one and no situation is perfect or ideal and that one’s emotional state need not be black and white. The change from the more somber use of piano to ethereal guitar and synth at the end is also an effective touch to change up not just the mood but the quality of the energy of expression with a change of approach to parallel the one more psychological. Listen to “Mirrors” on YouTube and follow the Finnish dream pop band Babel at the links below.
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