Kevin Bronson on February 24th, 2010

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The Delta Mirror, the latest incarnation of the decade-long music collaboration between Craig Gordon and David Bolt, makes electro-shoegaze with the disposition of a gathering storm. The languid, foreboding tracks on the band’s concept album, “Machines That Listen” (out March 16 on Lefse Records), are snapshots of scenes from a hospital; each song takes place in a different room. It’s goth and ambient – think the Editors, trapped in an apocalyptic computer game, in slow motion. With bassist Karrie K, the trio has the March residency at the Echo.

||| Download: “He Was Worse Than the Needle He Gave”

||| Live: The Delta Mirror performs every Monday in March at the Echo.