Mirrors (Sandra album) explained

Mirrors
Type:studio
Artist:Sandra
Cover:Sandra - Mirrors.png
Border:yes
Recorded:1986
Genre:
Length:34:49
Label:Virgin
Producer:
Prev Title:The Long Play
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:Ten on One (The Singles)
Next Year:1987

Mirrors is the second studio album by German pop singer Sandra, released on 13 October 1986 by Virgin Records. The album spawned the European Top 10 singles "Innocent Love" and "Hi! Hi! Hi!".

Background

Mirrors was produced by Michael Cretu and Armand Volker, and continued the synth-pop-oriented style introduced on Sandra's debut album, The Long Play, released the year before. The material was arranged with the use of such synthesizers as Akai S900, PPG, Linn 9000, Prophet 2002, Oberheim Matrix-12, EMS Vocoder, Yamaha DX7 and Roland Super Jupiter. Mirrors saw more songwriting and singing involvement from Hubert Kemmler, who was already a popular singer in Germany under the name of Hubert Kah. The song "Don't Cry (The Breakup of the World)" was written in reaction to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Four singles were released from this album. "Innocent Love" was the lead single and reached the top 10 in multiple European countries, followed by "Hi! Hi! Hi!", which was a top-10 entry in Sandra's native Germany, as well as Greece and Spain. The ballad "Loreen" and the uptempo "Midnight Man" served as the album's third and fourth singles, respectively, and both achieved a moderate success across Europe.

The album charted within the top 20 in Germany, Switzerland, Finland and Norway.

Track listing

Note:

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Mirrors.[2]

Charts

Chart (1986)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Argentine Albums (CAPIF)[3] 9
European Albums (Music & Media)[4] 37
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[5] 15

Notes and References

  1. Mirrors. Sandra. 1986. 10 Records. VL 2370.
  2. Sandra . Sandra (singer) . Mirrors . liner notes . . 1986 . 257 915-225.
  3. News: Las canciones más populares en Latinoamérica. La Opinión (Los Angeles). es. 26 October 2023. 25 March 1988. 11.
  4. European Hot 100 Albums . . 3 . 50 . 20 December 1986 . 27 . 29800226 . World Radio History.
  5. Book: Pennanen, Timo . Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 . fi . 1st . Helsinki . . 2006 . 978-951-1-21053-5.