Matthew E. White & Lonnie Holley - Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection

CD Released 9th April 2021.

VinylReleased 14th May 2021.

Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection is a timely callout to the power of collaboration, of kindred spirits connecting in crowded rooms. More important, though, is this collision of two profoundly Southern artists, meeting to shed expectations of generation and genre, scene and situation and exchange truth, wisdom, and energy. The real world is more complicated than a pretty digital picture, bowdlerized of blemishes. As Broken Mirror: A Selfie Reflection reminds us, it can be more revelatory and transformative, too.

These tracks are balls of energized contemplation, Holley crooning grievances and observations above surrealist grooves so irrepressible and heavy that the words strike with the force of gospel. Holley strolls into I Cried Space Dust as if hes wandered into the On the Corner sessions and offered unsolicited insights on true transcendence. Im Not T