This is a cover version of Asian Dub Foundation's song featured on "Enemy of the Enemy" 2003 album (guest vocalist: Sinead O'Connor).
It is the only cover song on Neuro's debut album "Mind Altar".
"it's one of the most intriguing compositions on Mind Altar and Short’s vocals are at their best here." - Michael Korn (RAM Magazine, Music Street Journal and his own project, Wormwood Chronicles)
"... performances may be of the mainstream rock nature, but the vocals – which certainly demonstrate power and passion – aren’t what one would typically hear on mainstream radio." Alexa Spieler (A-List
MusicPromotions.com)
..."a spacey bit of ambient rock that's ambitious and refined. The vocals are vaguely tortured, like a cross between Freddie Mercury and Shel Silverstein. It's an intriguing if subtly disturbing start." - Wildy Haskell (Wildy’s World, a blog dedicated to exposing some of the best music out there, be it Indie or mainstream)
"An eclectic piece of work, with sitar and raw drums setting the tone along with Short’s dramatic vocals range across the surface." - Andrew Greenhalgh (Relevant Magazine, Stereo Subversion, CCM, Country Standard Time, and
Soul-Audio.com)
“1000 Mirrors,” was originally performed by Asian Dub Foundation, featuring Sinead O’Connor. Neuro brings to their version a new, reggae-like back beat, but the heavy combination of bass drum, snare drum, synthesizer, bells, and overpowering electric guitar immediately maintains the original song’s dark theme of male dominance over innocent women.
The vocals have a driving, persistent rhythm, almost meditative, like a dread-locked David Bowie, or Styx at the end of ‘Mr. Roboto,’ and that intensity combined with the occasional, casually rolled ‘R’, makes for an unsettling vibe. The sparer, reggae atmosphere contracts into that wall of loud sound when the vocals cut out—layers of drum beats, dramatic synth crescendos, and playful electric guitar riff—then the song ends in simplicity." - Alice Neiley (has a BA in English with a minor in music from the University of Vermont, and currently attends Hunter College’s Creative Non-fiction MFA program in New York City)
released January 11, 2015
Written by Asian Dub Foundation (Aniruddha Das / Pandit G / Steve Chandra Savale / Delbert Tailor). Universal Music Ltd.
Vocals: Jesse Short
Keyboards: Jesse Short
Instruments: Steve Hansen