Brixtone – The Mirror Stars ( Electro / Pop ) Review
NMR – A flash back for me to 80’s style electronic synth pop, really cool drum sounds and patterns, the synths are equally good, the super wide vocal has a disntinct vibe, almost Bowie style, not sure if its double track or FX, but its suits the track.
The track has an evolving structure, adding elements as it moves forward, but the back drop always the drum / synth groove.
I like it …
A blood-bound collision between half-brothers Paul and Pete Brixtone, raised in opposite worlds yet drawn toward the same rupture in sound.
One brings instinct, abrasion, and noise.
The other brings structure, discipline, and an architectural sense of melody.
What emerges is volatile—controlled damage.
Their debut Never Play to the Gallery has already begun carving out its own mythology, earning strikingly positive reviews and being described as an “electro-rock-post-punk-jazz entity.” It’s a restless, shape-shifting mass of sound, stretched tight between decay and precision.
This isn’t nostalgia. This is reconstruction.
BRIXTONE operates in the unstable space between signal and collapse—where rhythm mutates, melodies corrode, and structure feels perpetually on the brink of disintegration.
Never Play to the Gallery doesn’t follow the faultline. It cuts through it.
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