Last year, Mirah returned with “Catch My Breath,” featuring Flock Of Dimes and Hand Habits. It was her first song in seven years, and now the indie rocker is announcing her seventh album Dedication, which follows 2018’s Understanding.
Dedication has Flock Of Dimes, Hand Habits, and Andrew Maguire as a backing band. The record partly comes from a place of mourning; two weeks after the release of Understanding, her father died. She was six months pregnant and heading on tour for the LP. “Experiencing the greatest grief of my life and the greatest joy of my life in such close proximity definitely contributed to the genesis of Dedication,” she says.
The sprawling single “After The Rain” is out now, about which she explains:
Turns out that I am the kind of person who can get almost nothing work-like done within the frame of a normal work-day but give me a week and I will write a whole album. I was at the house in San Gabriel and this song just flew out of me. It wouldn’t have flown out in between school drop off and school pick up, with a bunch of errands and e-mails to deal with in between. This song needed the mountains in the distance, the weird suburban quiet of the days, the familiar strangeness of sleeping in not my own bed, the not my life life. I find a lot of truth in times like that, when I am just listening to me. What a gift.
Listen below.
TRACKLIST:
01 “The Ballad Of The Bride Of Frankenstein”
02 “Stumbling”
03 “To Me”
04 “After The Rain”
05 “The Beginning Of Time”
06 “Catch My Breath”
07 “Do You See Me”
08 “Mama Me”
09 “Hummingbird”
10 “New Jersey Turnpike”
Dedication is out 2/20 via Double Double Whammy.
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