BLOOD FOR THE RETURN

Most people just start a band, reiterate what they like, get a buzz, and when it slows down they start a new band - but it's like a new name with mysterious photos. But it's all the same people. You see the stuff over and over again." - Johnny Jewel of Italians Do It Better in a Pitchfork interview from 2012. The above quote contains an extra layer of meaning considering that Johnny Jewel himself has an occasional solo recording project that also uses the name "Mirage". This Mirage is not him. Nor is this Mirage who it was pretending to be. But, of course, what better name to use than Mirage when attempting to pass off a false persona to the world'