ARTIST: Mira
TITLE: There I Go Daydreamer
LABEL: Projekt
GENRE: Darkwave
BITRATE: 194kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 02min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-08-16
RIP DATE: 2005-08-16
Track List
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01. Say When 4:53
02. Pieces 5:56
03. Highs In The Lows 5:31
04. Adrift 5:07
05. No Other Way 5:28
06. Long Division 5:15
07. Window Seat 5:15
08. Reset 4:39
09. Heavenly Slumber 2:18
10. Passerby 5:29
11. Nearest Exit 6:28
12. Hinterland 6:30
Release Notes:
Their third album: driving shoegazer with sensual female vocals. Enjoy.
For 2005, Mira returns with their most focused, mature, and fully realized
release to date. There I go daydreamer is a testament documenting the band's
attention to detail, ear for texture, and desire to capture the intensity of
their live shows. From the unnerving guitars of the album opener "Say When,"
Regina immediately sets the tone: "I've drawn the line, walked it too many
times." Thus begins the daydreamer journey, taking the listener through fear,
hope, and catharsis as Regina poses and plays with the questions plaguing her.
Never before has she been so open and candid in her lyrics. The album shifts
from danceable hits such as the shoegazey and spacey "Highs in the Lows," and
the brief, but brilliant, drive of "Heavenly Slumber" to grand epics like the
heavy folk stylings of "Long Division" and the bombastic "Nearest Exit" from
which the album is named. In the midst of all of this are the most crystalline
and brilliant songs Mira has written, from the jazzy feel of "No Other Way," to
one of the album's greatest songs, the sparse and ghostly beautiful "Adrift."
"Hinterland," the album's closer, is a return to the tension out of which the
album began, returning Regina to her questions, searching for a brave face. The
lines "inside a cave I will hibernate / when the seasons change I will not even
wake" are some of the most painful, as the album builds, explodes, and collapses
under its own weight. This latest album from Mira, more than any other,
establishes the band at the forefront of the current darkwave/shoegaze/post-punk
revival, and cements their place in the annals as one of the best of the bunch,
not only on Projekt records, but also across the whole of music today.
Absolutely brilliant, an instant classic.