Various Artists - I'll Be Your Mirror

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I’ll Be Your Mirror is a tribute album by Various Artists, released in September 2021 via Verve Records.

The Velvet Underground & Nico single-handedly redefined the boundaries of what rock & roll could achieve and express. It invented the very notion of alternative rock, and it laid the blueprint for punk, grunge and every rebellious underground gesture to follow.

Before the Velvets, the idea that a band could not have hits and still be important was unthinkable. But as Lou Reed never tired of pointing out, after the Velvets, rock & roll could make an appeal to posterity, could look for recognition beyond the present day, in the same way that poetry, fiction, drama, painting and all the other so-called “high” arts could. If the Velvets had only made this one album, they still would be among the most significant and influential bands in rock history.

I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico is a spellbinding contemporary version of the Velvets debut, with each of the album’s songs performed by one of the band’s noteworthy artistic descendants. The album was overseen and executive produced by Hal Wilner, Lou Reed’s dear friend and producer who died last year. To call Wilner a “producer” is a misnomer, needless to say; he revealed an artist’s vision and originality in every project he engaged. Wilner became a master of the tribute album, each one both displaying a deep understanding and extending the magnitude of the artist or work under consideration. In particular, he very much viewed himself as a primary curator of Reed’s legacy, and the care and love he felt for his friend’s work is evident in every note on this album. Fittingly (and sadly) this is the last tribute album he worked on.

This album features Courtney Barnett, Fonatines D.C., Kurt Vile, Matt Berninger, Iggy Pop with Matt Sweeney and many more.

This double album 2LP record set is on black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a silver foil banana image and printed insert, pressed in Europe via Verve Records.

(13292)

Tracklisting:

 

No.

Track

Artist

Time

A1

Sunday Morning

Michael Stipe

3:50

A2

I'm Waiting For The Man

Matt Berninger

3:44

A3

Femme Fatale

Sharon Van Etten

4:43

B1

Venus In Furs

Andrew Bird and Lucius

6:55

B2

Run Run Run

Kurt Vile

6:59

C1

All Tomorrow's Parties

St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett

4:52

C2

Heroin

Thurston Moore

7:24

C3

There She Goes Again

King Princess

3:29

D1

I'll Be Your Mirror

Courtney Barnett

2:27

D2

The Black Angel's Death Song

Fontaines D.C.

3:12

D3

European Son

Iggy Pop and Matt Sweeney

7:45

SKU 13292
Record Label Verve Records
Label / Model # Universal
Catalogue Number 00602435772219
Country EU - Europe
Release Date (Year) 24 September 2021
Original Release Date (Year) 24 September 2021
Barcode # 602435772219
Shipping Weight 0.4000kg
Shipping Width 0.010m
Shipping Height 0.314m
Shipping Length 0.314m
Shipping Cubic 0.000986000m3
Type New
Format Limited Edition Double Album 2LP Records, Black Vinyl, Silver Foil Single Pocket Sleeve, Printed Insert
Vinyl Colour Black
Genre Rock & Popular
Format VINYL LP

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