Eric Angelo Bessel has unveiled a mesmerizing new instrumental, Scavengers, ahead of the haunting new album which will soon follow. Scavengers offers a first taste of Mirror at Night which will be Bessel's second solo outing, and the fifth release from the Lore City Music imprint. It all sounds like we are in for an experience that’s as mystifying as it is immersive.
Rather than leaning on conventional melodies, Scavengers conjures atmosphere built from Mellotron and the early-aughts Alesis synths. The result is feels obscure, like sounds which have been extracted from a dream that never fully surfaced.
Bessel describes: “Scavengers is an homage to mind coalescence and superorganisms trying their thousands of hands at constructing lo-fi string ensembles echoing through the night, and in reverse, whenever it suits them.”
Fittingly, Mirror at Night arrives October 31st, 2025.
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