In five short years, Kansas City's CASKET LOTTERY have released a lustrous collection of more than sixty recorded songs, including four full-length albums, two EPs, and countless compilation and 7" contributions. As their final planned release, Smoke and Mirrors brings THE CASKET LOTTERY back to the studio with the ever-present Ed Rose (THE GET UP KIDS, COALESCE, REGGIE AND THE FULL EFFECT, LIMBECK, and MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK) for four new songs that reflect passionately on the breadth of their pioneering angular, arduous, and melodic five-year history. This is the final release from THE CASKET LOTTERY (members of COALESCE).