“The Mirrors Were Right” by Hush

Hush have released their debut single/video with “The Mirrors Were Right,” the track is the lead-single off their forthcoming album, arriving in 2026 via Simone Records (Peter Broderick, Nils Frahm and Anne Mûller).

“The Mirrors Were Right,” captures the band’s blend of shimmering guitars, warped analog drums, kosmische synths, and ethereal harmonies—a sound that feels suspended somewhere between waking and dreaming. Lead vocalist Paige Barlow delivers her lines like spells cast in soft focus: The sky is our mirror, made of sweet dreams… which myth are you living?

The lyrics came to her as she reflected on long past, but long-lasting periods of dissociation, and on flashes of clarity that cut through them now. ‘The mirrors are right’ when reflections feel distorted; ‘luckily alive’ with a head above water, somewhere between the surface & the clouds.

“For the clip, we wanted to portray a fractured sense of self. The distorted inner witness. Evolving identities over time. Imagined through a cubist and surrealist lens: worlds sensed, not witnessed. Images drift and reform, mirroring the song’s unfolding. A meditation on multiplicity. The self made plural,” says Barlow.

Accompanied by multi-instrumentalists Miles Dupire-Gagnon and Gabriel Lambert, the trio weave together psychedelic textures and melodic immediacy with cinematic precision. Co-produced and mixed by and René Wilson.

Drawing inspiration from acts as musically diverse as Broadcast, The Velvet Underground, Melody’s Echo Chamber, and Steve Lacy, Cocteau Twins and Ariel Pink, Hush create a sonic mirage that’s at once nostalgic and forward-looking. Their music lives in the blurred light of perception—half memory, half hallucination—an invitation to lose yourself inside their dream, their hall of mirrors.

Hush was Formed by Paige Barlow, Miles Dupire-Gagnon, and Gabriel Lambert, Hush are part of a new wave of Montreal artists reshaping psychedelic pop. Their sound is a prism where art-rock, jazz, krautrock, surf, and dream-pop refract into something both cinematic and deeply human. Like a reflection caught in motion, Hush’s music asks you to look closer—then dares you to look away.

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