Okay I was reading through the posts and at some point Phil said that 'Cold Cold Water' was Mirah's best song, and I concede; even though 'The Light' has nearly the same number of plays on my Itunes, 'Cold Cold Water' is so frighteningly Majestic and Spine-Tingly that it cannot be beat. It's positively thunderous. It's positively brilliant.
In many ways, the rest of her music (edit: all music ever) pales in comparison to its titanic sweep of turbulence. It's hard to describe. It nearly reduced Sevil to tears when she heard it first. This sounds really exaggerated and shitty but seriously, it is a masterpiece.
Mirah's music as a Body Of Work is fairly good, in that she's 'indie' and inaccessible enough for reviewers to be okay with giving her albums 7/8/9s and thankfully never utter the words 'unashamedly pop' (zsxilfjlzdvk) but also excellent enough to be genuinely rewarding 'for the listener'. I guess some could find her lilting, girlish voice 'cold' but it's so brilliantly passionate at the same time, take 'Special Death' for example, with its strange, dirge-like 'la la la's, or the pulsating, 'wall of noise' (gag gag gag) non-beat of 'Body Below' where her voice is seemingly detached but the lyrics exhibit a truly awesome fire. In fact, as her music is so intense, you notice a key set of recurring themes; fire, pressure, power, heat. Pretty much, all her songs are about sex. It's not so much a hunt to look for the double entendres as a struggle to find anything that isn't about her conquests.
Is it stupid to liken a musical artist to a novelist? Mirah makes the most eloquent, engaging, intense music that I have literally Ever Heard In My Life ; even if it's not a valid comparison, it is apt. Someone in Victorian Times once said that the author of Jane Eyre had "all that we require in a novelist...perception of character, and power of delineating it; picturesqueness; passion; and knowledge of life." Mirah is better because this is all packaged into 2.5 minutes of fun.
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