mirage

Lisel shares the entrancing new video for her Angels on the Slope highlight, "Mirage". The Harrison Atkins-directed visuals were premiered yesterday by the FADER, who called the song "a sweeping, clattering ballad that feels simultaneously unearthly and deeply, wonderfully human"...

If you don't have After Dark 2 yet, Johnny Jewel has generously upped a mixed version of the full comp -- one of our favorite releases of the year so far -- and it's a free download. Grab it: ...and while you're at it, might as well grab the original classic too:

Tracklist after the jump. Get it on iTunes. Physical copies apparently "on the way..." Italians Do It Better on the slight discrepancy between the tracklist that's been floating around and the final tracklist: "NIGHT SHIFT & JOHANNA WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY. AND THE GLASS CANDY SONGS WILL BE ON "BODY WORK". JOHNNY HAD 27 TRACKS MIXED & MASTERED FOR AFTER DARK 2. B

Another gem from After Dark 2, which is finally/officially out this Friday(!): this glorious 9+ minute vocoder jam from Mirage:"Let's Kiss" was written the same week as "Under Your Spell" in November 2008. After a bizarre & beautiful twist of fate, I walked into a remote bar in Montreal where I met the love of my life...