{"title":"Vanity Mirror","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"vanity-mirror-puff","title":"Vanity Mirror - PUFF","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-body\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-main\" class=\"col-md-10\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-product-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"aec-product-description\" class=\"col-md-12 col-sm-12 col-xs-12\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"aec-desc-review collapse\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe duo of Toronto-based Brent Randall and Los Angeles-dwelling Johnny Toomey are known for their previous achievements with Los Angeles based, baroque-pop group, The Electric Looking Glass. Both musicians compliment each other stylistically and add sparks to their newest project, Vanity Mirror. Their debut LP, PUFF was written, recorded, performed, produced and even mixed by Brent Randall. The resulting album starts where their other project Electric Looking Glass leaves off, with hummable, dreamy pop that branches out into more intimate, less genre specific freeform songcraft. It is a nostalgic collection of songs pieced together in makeshift spaces while traveling between LA, Montreal, Detroit and Toronto. Taping old pianos in public libraries and abandoned houses and tracking vocals in vintage shop basements, Randall sent the tracks to Toomey who recorded drums and percussion in his Los Angeles basement using a handheld field recorder. Listeners will call to mind artists like Emitt Rhodes, Olivia Tremor Control, and Belle and Sebastian. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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 fiancée and honorary third member of Vanity Mirror, Madeline Doctor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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. 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