New Jersey-based Punk trio Burntmill Ghosts have released new single “The Mirror” via Double Helix Records and SBAM Records. The track serves as a preview of the band’s forthcoming sophomore album, due in 2027.
Recorded at Little Eden Studios in Asbury Park with Pete Steinkopf of The Bouncing Souls, “The Mirror” presents a “candid message about self-doubt, social discomfort and the pressure to present a version of ourselves that does not feel genuine.” The single was mastered by Scott Sellers of Rufio.
Vocalist and guitarist Pete Vincelli says:
Some days, for whatever reason, we don’t like what we see in the mirror. And some days, we just have to grin and bear uncomfortable social situations. So we become something that we’re not. But deep down, we know who we really are, and we should simply own it. Stop faking it and just be ourselves. It’s kinda like the ol’ saying, ‘Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.’
The song’s accompanying video presents that internal struggle into an eerie setting. Filmed inside bassist Ian Egloff’s colonial-era home on the Jersey Shore, a house the band insists is genuinely haunted, the locations suits “a song about appearances, hidden identities and confronting what looks back at you.”
Vincelli says:
We filmed the video in Ian’s house, which is an old colonial-era home on the Jersey Shore. And it’s definitely haunted, so it felt like a perfect fit for this song.
Burntmill Ghosts springs from an era when Vincelli and Egloff, formerly of The Fullers, started revisiting a collection of songs they had been developing circa 2021. The project became a full-fledged band with the addition of drummer Justin Rodrigues.
The trio released its debut album, Old Records, through SBAM Records and Double Helix Records in 2024. Following shows throughout the Northeast and Midwest, Burntmill Ghosts returned to Little Eden to begin work on their second album. “The Mirror” offers the first glimpse of that next chapter, with more new music set to follow ahead of the album’s 2027 release.
