The Thievery Corporation - The Mirror Conspiracy
The Thievery Corporation's The Mirror Conspiracy will soothe whatever is ailing you. Boils, pustules, headaches, backaches, nagging coughs that threaten to rattle your ribs loose, bowel rumblings that scare the cat, insistent black dots that dance incessantly at the edge and center of your vision, goiters, corns, hemorrhaging: you name it, this disc will take care of it. Not fix your ailment, I'm not so brave as to proclaim that sort of miracle cure from an aural expediency, but The Mirror Conspiracy will definitely take away your discomfort and pain. This is what charlatans would have played in the background if the technology had availed itself while they hawked their snake oil. It makes you malleable, receptive, ready to believe that not only can pigs fly, but so can you. Just sit back, rub your temples a bit, and release yourself from that nasty grip that everyday societal pressure has got on your ass. Thievery Corporation is that last summer breeze, coming in through your open window and taking you back out the same way.
Their love of bossa nova, jazz, and dub has been extended to encompass forgotten film soundtracks and the summery sounds of Italian instrumental music of the late '60s. And space. Man, these songs have such huge spatial echoes booming through them. A great deal of what makes Thievery Corporation's blend of all these influences so damn delicious is that they just aren't in any hurry and each beat falls where it will in its own time. This is Zen downtempo: you take it at the pace it delivers itself and you don't rush it or yourself. You breathe in the space between the notes (where you will naturally if you just let yourself). You lament the ends of songs and find rapture in the opening melodies of the next. In short, you fall in love again and again. Ah, so many continents, so many influences, so much delight to be found in The Mirror Conspiracy. All in the space of a sublime hour.
Thievery Corporation
Eighteenth Street Lounge [2000]
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