Label: EPSM Agglomeration lilloise Bicentenary, 1825-2025
Format: 2LP, Gatefold
Country: France
Released: 15 January 2026
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Folk, New Wave, Lo-Fi, Acoustic
Master compiler DJ Sundae carves out a new world on new anthology for Lille’s Établissement Public de Santé Mentale (EPSM) hospital, honouring the institutions 100 years in operation.
Have we ever mentioned the Sky Girl compilation? Joke. But there’s still no better way to introduce French legend Laurent Richard aka DJ Sundae. He’s a man of distinguished taste, with eyes and ears for the sort of stuff you’d easily miss, even when it’s right on your lap. New double compilation Mirrors was originally commissioned as a continuous soundscape alongside archive photographs that chronicle the work of Lille’s public health institution EPSM. Sundae’s assemblage of material encompasses a vast spectrum of old, new, micro and macro-pressed releases, identifying specific, unifying atmospheric qualities in the music and threading a thematic cord throughout. Robert Haigh’s elegant solo piano piece from the seminal Valentine Out Of Season LP opens the door into a journeying headspace that drifts effortlessly from the delicate campfire folk of Christina Carter, dreamily smudged indie from Yo La Tengo and American poetry from Algebra Suicides’s Lydia Tomkiw. More recent pieces from the likes of HTRK and Lucy Duncombe demonstrate how it’s not all about pulling the most obscure music and places the emphasis on mood, context and story-telling. These days the compilation feels somewhat of a waining format, but when it’s done this well it has the ability to become a companion-piece and a fully formed headspace to inhibit. No one does it better. (Mint / New - strictly physical edition - one per person)
Tracklist
Robert Haigh - Impromptu
Kitchen Cynics - Spiderwebs
Christina Carter - Quiet Nights
Detente - En Of The Road
Yo La Tengo - By Two's
Brian Reitzell - Ozu Choral
Cliffordandcalix - You and I
HTRK - Death is a Dream
Headfall - Places I Went Because of You
Lydia Tomkiw - Thief
Dissolve - Presume Too Far
Lucy Duncombe - Brace
Epic Soundtracks - Sleepy City
Spelljammer - Peregrine
