When you’re in love it feels like every romantic song you hear has been written exclusively for you and your partner. When the relationship finally falls apart and your world takes the tattered shape of a broken heart, every ode to break-up tragedy likewise sounds like it has a shortcut to your heartstrings and tear ducts.

There are a lot of broken-hearted people around the world currently soaking their love wounds in a balm by the name of Somebody That I Used To Know. With rueful lyrics such as ‘You can be addicted to a certain kind of sadness’, the painful purge and clever twists of Gotye’s duet with Kimbra is less Don’t Give Up, more Don’t! Give Up!.

While Somebody That I Used To Know hits home hard, Making Mirrors has other stereoscopic joys on offer. I Feel Better’s sunny groove grafts Dancing In The Street onto Marvin Gaye’s It Takes Two, Bronte delivers a hushed, beautiful requiem and the Peter Gabriel warmth and subtleties of Giving Me A Chance looks for a reunion (perhaps with the doomed lover of Somebody That I Used To Know?).

Love, loss, joy and mortality - like a spotlight shining in a midnight forest, the brightest beams only serve to emphasise the darkness of Making Mirrors’ shadows.

Scott McLennan

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