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In true Ex fashion, " If Your Mirror Breaks" picks up where "27 Passports" left off, and erupts like a musical short story collection, a ten-part series of surrealist daydreams, calls to action, ominous warnings and bursts of vitality tapped into the pulse of time. What time could be more appropriate to release this album in, as the current one? Arnold de Boer, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Terrie Hessels once again impress with their trademark urgency and creativity. Starting from a staccato Walt Whitman poem from 1861 and wrapping things up with the unstoppable, joyful thrust of "Great!", the new album by The Ex is equal parts exploration and determination, with wistful shades accentuating their live wire intensity, unpredictability and sheer determination. Yes, there are moments of doubt and insecurity ("reality is shifting / there is no escape"), of distress ("I get desperate / I feel the wide washing of death"), but time and again, perseverance wins. As Bornefeld sings so aptly in her beautiful contribution "Wheel": "New life force unfolds for those who flow / with the song of their souls." De Boer has a striking way with images. Walls speak, spiders write and turning into an apartment block becomes a life goal.Imagination and language become a refuge, but also weapons in times of loss and division.
Tracklist
1 Beat Beat Drums
2 Monday Song
3 The Evidence
4 Spider and Fly
5 Circuit Breaker
6 Wheel
7 The Loss
8 In the Rain
9 The Apartment Block
10 Great!