Modern Mirror LP

Modern Mirror is Drab Majesty's second album, built around Deb Demure, once the drummer in Marriages, and released through Dais Records. Where the band's breakout, The Demonstration, ran on bright, triumphant hooks, this one sinks into murkier ground, anxiety, eroticism, longing that doesn't resolve, under coldwave synths that owe something to The Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Reviewers at the time called it a strong year-end record even without the earlier album's immediacy, and treated it as proof the band was only getting started.