{"product_id":"mirror-of-venus-never-say-forever","title":"Mirror of Venus \"Never Say Forever\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eMirror of Venus are the LA post-punk quartet of Joy Damert (vocals, synth), Margot Rhodes (vocals, guitar), Jose Espinoza (bass), and Heidi Weber (drums) — four musicians who first played together a decade ago in San Francisco's Mission scene and reformed as a project once their separate lives brought them to Los Angeles. Their debut LP \"Never Say Forever,\" out on à La Carte Records, is that project fully arrived: nine tracks and forty minutes of post-punk that treats atmosphere and urgency as the same problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reference points sit across a specific stretch of late-'70s and early-'80s UK post-punk — The Durutti Column's patient guitar architecture, Wire's economy, Siouxsie and the Banshees' vocal command, Xmal Deutschland's dense percussive drive — with C86 shimmer around the edges. The record's central preoccupation is identity as performance and presence as commodity: the specific loneliness of watching yourself perform online in real time, worked into songs that stretch and contract with cinematic patience. Post-punk.com on the title track: \"hypnotic, melodic … gorgeous vocal interplays spanning the sublime to the feral … culminating in a glorious hook.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePressed on two limited 12\" vinyl variants alongside all digital platforms — \"Never Say Forever\" is a debut that behaves like the band has been sitting with these ideas for years, because they have.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"à La Carte Records","offers":[{"title":"Red with black splatter 12\"","offer_id":44375326392500,"sku":"ALC-163-LP-1","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Red 12\"","offer_id":44375326425268,"sku":"ALC-163-LP-2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/8331\/0772\/files\/Final.jpg?v=1788496671","url":"https:\/\/alacarterecords.com\/products\/mirror-of-venus-never-say-forever","provider":"à La Carte Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}