Mirror of Venus are the LA post-punk quartet of Joy Damert (vocals, synth), Margot Rhodes (vocals, guitar), Jose Espinoza (bass), and Heidi Weber (drums). The four first played together a decade ago in San Francisco's Mission scene and reformed as a project after their separate lives brought them each to Los Angeles, bonding around a shared love of late-'70s and early-'80s UK post-punk pioneers like The Durutti Column, Sad Lovers & Giants, and Wire. Their sound also draws from the heavier lineage of Xmal Deutschland and Siouxsie and the Banshees, with C86-adjacent shimmer at the edges.

Their debut single "Never Say Forever" — a nearly-six-minute meditation on identity, alienation, and the digital erasure of self — introduced the band to a widening post-punk audience, with post-punk.com describing it as "hypnotic, melodic … gorgeous vocal interplays spanning the sublime to the feral … culminating in a glorious hook." The song's thematic territory, as Espinoza framed it, sits with "a person who feels isolated from the modern world and begins to battle with an internal monologue that is trying to convince them that the only way to fit in is to completely lose their true identity." Their debut full-length, "Never Say Forever" (à La Carte Records, 2026), takes its title from that song and expands its thematic and sonic reach across nine tracks and forty minutes — atmosphere and urgency treated as the same problem, presence and performance held at once. A record that behaves like the band has been sitting with these ideas for years, because they have.