“Scavengers” is a great first taste of the beguiling music that awaits you on Eric Angelo Bessel’s second solo album, Mirror at Night, and beguiling is exactly the right word. Because categorizing it, adding a generic label, or pigeonholing the track (if you are still into such an outmoded approach to things) is pointless, as this is music from the liminal spaces. The liminal spaces are those places between – between genres and styles, between art and illusion, between cinematics and song, between worlds even.
It’s less a song, more a soundtrack, less a soundtrack, more a mood, less a mood, and more an unexplained feeling; it is music as an outlet for…well, who knows, anyone can hazard a guess, and each answer will be equally valid. The artist knows why they made it, but it could and indeed should mean something different to everyone; that is the power of music, not led by lyrics. Musically, it is built on gentle drones and ambient drifts, mysterious sonics and subtly chaotic musicality, and it plays out like a collection of forgotten dreams and memories you didn’t realise were yours. It carries a strange nostalgia for places never visited and amplifies distant echoes from worlds caught between frequencies.
But the bigger question is whether this is music deliberately composed, or something channelled through the artist—an impression rather than an intention. It asks us where song ends and art begins, where music tips over into noise, and whether music itself might sometimes be less a created concept and merely a found sound.
At moments, it feels like constructive white noise, the pulse of deep space, an echo of the Big Bang, or perhaps the heartbeat of the universe itself. Whatever the source, it is less about listening in the usual sense, and more about being immersed—caught in the spaces between…well, everything.
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