Mirage Makes The Endorphins Sound More Wounded, More Focused, and Harder to Shake

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The Boston grunge band turn their newest single into a slow-burn study in fracture and momentum.At 3:23, “Mirage” distills the group’s fuzzed-out past into something leaner, heavier, and more emotionally pointed.

I hear “Mirage” as a turning point for The Endorphins. The Boston band, formed in 2014 and now billing the song as a lead-in to the forthcoming Echoes in the Decaying Dream LP, sound interested in brute-force catharsis and controlled pressure.

What grabs me is the way "Mirage" keeps its emotional center intact while the arrangement leans into grunge grit and a dreamlike haze. A song built around division, blame, and the paralysis that follows when two people can no longer agree on the shape of a shared reality. That mood is baked into the lyric and reinforced by the band’s taut 3:23 runtime, 123 BPM drive, and no-frills credits: Matt Bass on guitar/vocals, Austin Wilson on bass, Jeff Walsh on drums, with Alex Allinson engineering.

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