Mirah first made waves method again in 2000 together with her debut You Suppose It’s Like This However Actually It’s Like This, an album that established the then-Olympia-based artist as a fixture of the mid-’90s Pacific Northwest indie rock scene. (Phil Elverum co-produced it, and Ok Data launched it.) Now primarily based in Brooklyn, Mirah obtained much more ears on her music in 2020, when New York’s Double Double Whammy issued a brand new expanded version of You Suppose It’s Like This that includes covers by a few of the artists she’s impressed — Flock Of Dimes and Hand Habits, to call only a couple. In the present day, Mirah has returned together with her first new music in seven years, the one “Catch My Breath,” and it additionally options Flock Of Dimes’ Jenn Wasner and Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy.
“Catch My Breath” sounds method larger and extra polished than the lo-fi recordings Mirah was releasing 25 years in the past, however the amped-up environment pays off. It’s impressed by ’80s power-pop with numerous nice vocal harmonies, shimmery synths, and razor-sharp electrical guitars. Lyrically, it’s about desirous to work by means of a tough patch in a relationship: “Now I’m not saying I didn’t contribute/ To this shitty silly fucking mess we’ve gotten into/ I’m simply saying I’m not prepared to surrender on anybody.” Mirah says in a press launch:
When this track first got here out it had a sonically pensive aura. I might inform it was a keeper, however I needed to strive some completely different displays, play with it somewhat. Might the wound spring of questioning and longing and relationship nervousness sound bombastic, or enjoyable, or like an ’80s pop track? That’s what we went for within the studio, and with Jenn, Meg, and Andrew Maguire in there with me it actually simply took off. I like how the track expressed its malleability to me after which took so nicely to the therapy.
Take heed to “Catch My Breath” beneath.