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Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington, in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K Records, including You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This (2000) and Advisory Committee (2002). Her 2009 album (a)spera

Early life, education

Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn

Mirah took part in a number of anti-nuclear walks during her middle school and high school years, including a 6-week stretch of the 9-month cross country Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in 1986 when she was 12.

Collaborations (2006–2008)

;Joyride: Remixes, 2006

Joyride: Remixes is a double CD containing remixes of Mirah's material by K Records artists, such as Guy Sigsworth, Anna Oxygen, Tender Forever, Yacht, Mount Eerie, Khaela Maricich, Lucky Dragons and Electrosexual. Released by K Records on November 21, 2006, the album was positively received, scoring 3.5/5 from Allmusic as well as at several Yoyo A Go Go festivals. In 2009 she started working with the Billions booking agency.

Recent releases (2009–present)

;(a)spera, touring (2009)

(a)spera, the title of Mirah's fourth full-length studio album, released on March 10, 2009, and has choreography by Faye Driscoll and photographed by Ava Berkofsky.

;Thao + Mirah (2010)

In early 2010, after performing with singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen at the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, the two announced a 2010 North American tour, billed under the name Thao and Mirah with the Most of All. and the accompanying video was by Doulgeris and Aubree Bernier-Clarke.

She began living part-time in Brooklyn in October 2012, and again at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn in 2014.

Sundial EP (2017)

Mirah’s Sundial EP was released on October 6, 2017, through her imprint label, Absolute Magnitude Recordings. The EP was created in collaboration with Jherek Bischoff and features reworked versions of six songs from Mirah’s back catalogue, along with the title track “Sundial.”

The release has been described as featuring orchestral arrangements and reflective themes, with the title track incorporating string instrumentation and lyrical imagery centered on cosmic observation and human experience.

Understanding (2018)

On September 7, 2018, Mirah released her 2nd full-length album on her imprint label Absolute Magnitude Recordings, "Understanding". The 10-track record stems from demos recorded during Mirah's time in residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Northern California. Mirah returned to New York and fleshed out the rest of the album with frequent collaborators Greg Saunier (of Deerhoof) and Eli Crews (Tune Yards, Julie Ruin). Mirah released four singles to accompany the album - "Hot Hot", "Information", "Lighthouse", and "Ordinary Day". She also released a music video for "Lake/Ocean", which follows Mirah on her journey through the Alaskan Inside Passage, confronting her fear of water and darkness. The album's first track, Counting, is featured on the TV show Veronica Mars.

All Music calls it "a commanding and confident collection of songs that blends the confessional with the celebratory. Much more shimmering and robust than earlier lo-fi albums...Understanding doesn't shy away from layered vocals, synthesizer flourishes, and big crescendos." NPR included Understanding on its list of 'Eight Albums You Should Hear Now" on its release day.

You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This: 20 Year Anniversary Reissue (2020)

On July 31, 2020, Mirah released a deluxe reissue version of her seminal LP, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This, via Double Double Whammy. The original record was remastered by Josh Bonati and the double LP includes a full tribute album featuring more than twenty contributing artists. Many of the artists have been longtime collaborators of Mirah's, such as Mount Eerie and The Blow, and many newer artists inspired by Mirah's catalog, including Half Waif, Shamir, Palehound, Mal Blum and more.

Dedication (2026)

Mirah released her seventh studio album, Dedication, on February 20, 2026, through Double Double Whammy and her imprint Absolute Magnitude Recordings.The album consists of ten songs and was recorded at Altamira Sound in Los Angeles. It marked her first full-length release in eight years, following Understanding (2018).

The album includes singles such as “The Ballad of the Bride of Frankenstein,” “After the Rain,” and “Catch My Breath.”Critics described Dedication as a reflective work addressing themes of motherhood, grief, and personal change.

Style, equipment

thumb|left|260px|Mirah with her Gibson guitar in 2009

As a vocalist, songwriter, and experimental pop recording artist, Mirah typically works independently while songwriting, though frequently collaborates as a recording artist. In 2007, she began writing collaboratively for the first time with Spectratone International.

Publishing history

2008: Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls – essay included
1999: Lullaby Lullaby (Eighty North Records) – track "Special Death"
2000: Secret Home Party 7" (Little Pad Records, Japan) – track "Location Temporary"
2001: Breakout (Dead Turtle Recordings, cass comp.) – track "I'm Alive"
2002: One year later...It Still Hurts/Queers Against the G8 (Speed Demon Queer Zine) – track "Monument"
2004: Hidden Songs, a Green UFOs 10th Anniversary Compilation – track "Dogs of BA"
2005: "The Vibration Split" with Emilyn Brodsky (Third Story Records, 7") – track "Out Riding"
2005: Pressing Sounds compilation – track "The Life You Love"
2005: PDX Pop Now compilation – track "While We Have the Su"n (4-track home version)
2009: This Is a Care Package (benefit comp for H.I.P.S., or Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) – track "While We Have the Sun"
2010: Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home – version of "Love Minus Zero"
2016: 30 Days, 30 Songs - track "No Guns No Guns"

;Soundtracks

2010: Group soundtrack (film w/Carrie Brownstein and Nomy Lamm, Yoyo Recordings) – track "Sweepstakes Prize"

Performance credits

1999: Don't Wake Me Up by The Microphones – vocals, guitar
2000: Window by The Microphones – vocals, guitar
Sick of Recorder by Tokyo – Japanese vocals on track "Cold Cold Winter"

References

External links

Official Site
K Records Artist Page

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