Mirror is the fourth studio album by English experimental space rock band Flying Saucer Attack, released by FSA Records and Drag City on 17 January 2000.

Lead member David Pearce recorded the album, his second solo project released with the Flying Saucer Attack name, with the assistance of one-time collaborator and English producer Rocker from 1997 to 1999 during a long period of depression.

The album builds upon the sampling and noise approaches of the band's previous album, New Lands (1997), exploring electronic experimentation with influences from drum and bass and industrial music, in addition to the lo-fi noise pop and gentle psychedelic folk that he originally established the band's style with.

Upon release, the album was greeted with favourable reviews from critics, complimenting its psychedelic sound, and was a moderate college radio success.

[8] Considered the band's most accessible album,[9][6] Mirror features tracks that explore experimentation with genres and sounds that were new to Pearce, including electronic music and beats inspired by drum and bass, most of which are largely prevalent in the album's second half, in addition to some of Pearce's melancholic acoustic folk songs.

"[12] Mirror also somehow manages to encapsulate most everything Pearce had done before, from unprepossessing acoustic laments, to blasted guitar scapes, to fried electronic pulsations, while also bringing new ideas to the table.

The effect of both rural and urban environments shines clearly throughout this record, suggesting a potential future in which a cohesive humanity can reconcile the introspection and simplicity of the countryside with the technology and progress of modern life.

"[14] "Space (1999)" opens the album with "sweeping billows of sound,"[10] and features "white noise fuzz and phased acoustic-slide guitar" alongside melodic vocals.

[15] "Islands" is over eight minutes long, morphing "through distinct and attention-grabbing phases, beginning sparsely and building into spiralling crescendos.

"[15] The darker "Chemicals" is an industrial song,[10][15] reminiscent of New Lands and containing a "throbbing electronic rhythm, crunching beat, and processed vocals.

"[15] "Winter Song" features a "jungle/drone-rock sound-clash,"[12] "pairing a driving, organic drum’n'bass rhythm with slabs of post-My-Bloody-Valentine noise and imbuing the resultant clamour with grim and bloody determination.

"[9] "Dust" features folk motifs over a drum loop,[11] contrasting with the metallic off-kilter rhythm and electronic ambient textures of following song "Rise".

Ryan Schreiber compared the sleeve to "a Grateful Dead reissue" and noted that "in place of liner notes is a blatantly hallucinogenic image of a psychedelic rainbow over a body of water, with creepy mutations of animals splashing about, and warped, gloopy flying saucers zooming past pink clouds.

"[9] Aural Innovations noted: "From its wildly psychedelic, mirror ball cover and inner-sleeve art featuring wobbling flying saucers careening over a churning ocean filled with rainbows, pink rabbits, and sea monsters, we know we're in for something different this time from Flying Saucer Attack.

[9] Kerwin So of Consumable Online asked of readers: "put this record on, take a deep breath, and listen with the lights off.

"[14] Jordan N. Mamone of CMJ New Music Monthly was favourable, and said the album's "real surprises are the static-y, post-techno beats, which, when paired with Pearce's alternately distortion drenched songs, lend an uncharacteristic, urban vibrancy to portions of the work.

"[15] Today, Mirror is regarded as the culmination of Pearce's series of albums "that incorporated beats and a slightly glossier production.

"[23] In a 2015 "beginner's guide to Flying Saucer Attack", Jon Dale of Fact Magazine said "Pearce sounds free on Mirror, as though he’s enjoying music again.

"[12] In a biography of the band, Jason Ankeny of Allmusic retrospectively commented that the album "contained some of the project's quietest, folkiest material, as well as blown-out excursions into drum'n'bass similar to Third Eye Foundation.