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Dedication(Double Double Whammy / Absolute Magnitude)
Add date: 2.24.2026
Release date: 2.20.2026
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Birth and death course through the same channel. A body's first breath is inextricably linked to its final exhale: life slides in, life slides out. Dedication, the first new album from Brooklyn-based songwriter Mirah in seven years, is a garland strung between those two openings. Written in the wake of her father's death, the birth of her son, a global pandemic, and a challenging chapter in her relationship, the record celebrates life in its full radiance with her singular alacrity and insight.
Since releasing her debut album You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This on K Records in 2000, Mirah has remained a beloved and idiosyncratic voice through indie rock's many permutations. Her abundant collaborators include Phil Elverum of The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, Thao Nguyen, and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof. Her seventh solo studio album, Dedication spills with the tenderness and wonder that marks the whole of Mirah's discography while simultaneously grounding her sound in new textural depths, meticulously crafted alongside her core studio collaborators.
In keeping with Mirah's lifelong attention to environmental sustainability, Dedication will be one of the first projects in the United States pressed onto the plant-based material Evovinyl. This limited edition vinyl pressing, with jackets hand-printed by Mirah and artist Marshall LaCount, will be available at shows or through direct mail order, and will forgo the plastic shrink-wrap typically required by record distributors. Dedication's CD release will be burned onto blank CDRs purchased from secondhand stores. "Environmentally speaking, the apocalypse is basically now, and I'm a part of the problem just as much as any average citizen of a wealthy industrialized nation, but I try to make the better choices when available and these feel like good ones to me," says Mirah.
Dedication arrives at the end of a tumultuous seven years. In the summer of 2018, Mirah lost her father while six months pregnant with her first and only child. "My dad was truly my biggest fan," she says. “My entire musical education consisted of listening to records and singing along with my dad and the rest of my family. Two weeks after her father passed away, she released and began performing in support of her album Understanding. "I knew I was going to be touring with this giant belly, but I didn’t know that it would be right after losing my dad," she shares.
"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," Mirah says.”These are such big experiences; being present for a death, giving birth. Love and dedication and pain are inextricable parts of both. When you accompany bodies entering and bodies leaving you feel it, this tangible, physical portal”.
In February 2020, Mirah flew to San Francisco to play a show, her first time being apart from her baby. "I felt completely alive with the possibility of returning to music and touring," she says. Two weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic put an indefinite halt on in-person concerts. Normal life stalled out and Mirah spent her days at home with her child. "My big joke, or the big joke of life on me, was that I was doing post-partum, perimenopause, and pandemic at the same time," she says. "That’s my triumvirate. And I didn’t even figure out that I was suffering from postpartum anxiety until well into 2020.”
While parenting through a pandemic, Mirah found her creative output slowed to a trickle. “I couldn’t find the space to write. The pandemic was not a time of expansive sourdough bread baking for me like it was for some people," she says with wry acceptance.
After her child started kindergarten, Mirah's friend and musical collaborator Andrew Maguire came to visit her in New York. When he heard that she hadn't been writing, he invited her to his home in Los Angeles, to do a residency of sorts: spend a week away from her family and daily mom life, with nothing to focus on but her songwriting. Mirah arrived to San Gabriel in May of 2024 during what happened to be a particularly turbulent time in her marriage. “Relationships can be hard, raising a kid can be hard, and, as we all found out, a pandemic can turn anything that's already hard into a real dumpster fire,” Mirah relays. But with the solitude and the change of scenery, songs started cascading.
"There was a bit of a big bang – an explosion of songs during this one week in May," Mirah says. "Andrew's neighborhood is the ‘kind of nowhere kind of somewhere pretty’ that I’m referring to in After the Rain, beautiful mountains in the distance, big sky, all these incredible trees and plants, some I’d never even seen before.”
“But there were also these endlessly wide streets, suburban ranch style homes and a dearth of sidewalks. Those things kept me home, focused on myself and my work. I stayed in Andrew’s backyard and stared up at the sky, the birds, the persimmon tree. I bet ¾ of the songs I’ve written in my life came from whatever kind of sky I was under at the time." Against this backdrop, she wrote half of the songs that make up Dedication, rendering the intensities of the past six years into buoyant, effervescent pop hooks and slow, delicate reflections alike.
In January of 2025, Mirah returned to Maguire's Altamira Sound studio to record the LP. She pulled together a band to track the songs live over the course of a single week. Serendipitously, both Jenn Wasner and Meg Duffy of Hand Habits were available and eager to step in for the sessions. "I had this one beautiful precious week, and everything just fell into place. My dream team that came together just in the nick of time,” says Mirah.
Throughout the week they had together, Mirah, Wasner, Duffy, Maguire, and engineer Rob Shelton worked to draw out the fullest, most expressive renditions of Dedication's songs. The rolling, vaporous "Bride of Frankenstein" erupts from a whisper to a yelp as it rakes its fingers through all the strains a relationship can weather over the years. "Stumbling" wraps the horrors and frustrations of the pandemic up into an exuberant shout-along chorus: a sparkler against the darkness of those acutely terrifying years. On "Catch My Breath," Mirah and her band don '80s power pop, complete with chirping synthesizers and gleaming earworms a la The Cars. Written during a Massachusetts artists' residency when Mirah's child was eight months old, "Mama Me" encapsulates the joys of new parenthood with brassy aplomb. And, in turn, "New Jersey Turnpike" is a wrenching elegy to Mirah's father: a slow, spacious rumination on the fragility of life and the love that fills it.
Love is proof that we're here: that we've reached out into the world, tangled with it, and grown from it as it grows around us. With Dedication, Mirah details the intricacies of love as it streaks through us – in beginnings and in endings, in moments of bitter hardship and unmitigated joy.
Apple Music
Bandcamp
Double Double Whammy
Official Website
Spotify
Tidal
YouTube
Birth and death course through the same channel. A body's first breath is inextricably linked to its final exhale: life slides in, life slides out. Dedication, the first new album from Brooklyn-based songwriter Mirah in seven years, is a garland strung between those two openings. Written in the wake of her father's death, the birth of her son, a global pandemic, and a challenging chapter in her relationship, the record celebrates life in its full radiance with her singular alacrity and insight.
Since releasing her debut album You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This on K Records in 2000, Mirah has remained a beloved and idiosyncratic voice through indie rock's many permutations. Her abundant collaborators include Phil Elverum of The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards, Thao Nguyen, and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof. Her seventh solo studio album, Dedication spills with the tenderness and wonder that marks the whole of Mirah's discography while simultaneously grounding her sound in new textural depths, meticulously crafted alongside her core studio collaborators.
In keeping with Mirah's lifelong attention to environmental sustainability, Dedication will be one of the first projects in the United States pressed onto the plant-based material Evovinyl. This limited edition vinyl pressing, with jackets hand-printed by Mirah and artist Marshall LaCount, will be available at shows or through direct mail order, and will forgo the plastic shrink-wrap typically required by record distributors. Dedication's CD release will be burned onto blank CDRs purchased from secondhand stores. "Environmentally speaking, the apocalypse is basically now, and I'm a part of the problem just as much as any average citizen of a wealthy industrialized nation, but I try to make the better choices when available and these feel like good ones to me," says Mirah.
Dedication arrives at the end of a tumultuous seven years. In the summer of 2018, Mirah lost her father while six months pregnant with her first and only child. "My dad was truly my biggest fan," she says. “My entire musical education consisted of listening to records and singing along with my dad and the rest of my family. Two weeks after her father passed away, she released and began performing in support of her album Understanding. "I knew I was going to be touring with this giant belly, but I didn’t know that it would be right after losing my dad," she shares.
"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," Mirah says.”These are such big experiences; being present for a death, giving birth. Love and dedication and pain are inextricable parts of both. When you accompany bodies entering and bodies leaving you feel it, this tangible, physical portal”.
In February 2020, Mirah flew to San Francisco to play a show, her first time being apart from her baby. "I felt completely alive with the possibility of returning to music and touring," she says. Two weeks later, the COVID-19 pandemic put an indefinite halt on in-person concerts. Normal life stalled out and Mirah spent her days at home with her child. "My big joke, or the big joke of life on me, was that I was doing post-partum, perimenopause, and pandemic at the same time," she says. "That’s my triumvirate. And I didn’t even figure out that I was suffering from postpartum anxiety until well into 2020.”
While parenting through a pandemic, Mirah found her creative output slowed to a trickle. “I couldn’t find the space to write. The pandemic was not a time of expansive sourdough bread baking for me like it was for some people," she says with wry acceptance.
After her child started kindergarten, Mirah's friend and musical collaborator Andrew Maguire came to visit her in New York. When he heard that she hadn't been writing, he invited her to his home in Los Angeles, to do a residency of sorts: spend a week away from her family and daily mom life, with nothing to focus on but her songwriting. Mirah arrived to San Gabriel in May of 2024 during what happened to be a particularly turbulent time in her marriage. “Relationships can be hard, raising a kid can be hard, and, as we all found out, a pandemic can turn anything that's already hard into a real dumpster fire,” Mirah relays. But with the solitude and the change of scenery, songs started cascading.
"There was a bit of a big bang – an explosion of songs during this one week in May," Mirah says. "Andrew's neighborhood is the ‘kind of nowhere kind of somewhere pretty’ that I’m referring to in After the Rain, beautiful mountains in the distance, big sky, all these incredible trees and plants, some I’d never even seen before.”
“But there were also these endlessly wide streets, suburban ranch style homes and a dearth of sidewalks. Those things kept me home, focused on myself and my work. I stayed in Andrew’s backyard and stared up at the sky, the birds, the persimmon tree. I bet ¾ of the songs I’ve written in my life came from whatever kind of sky I was under at the time." Against this backdrop, she wrote half of the songs that make up Dedication, rendering the intensities of the past six years into buoyant, effervescent pop hooks and slow, delicate reflections alike.
In January of 2025, Mirah returned to Maguire's Altamira Sound studio to record the LP. She pulled together a band to track the songs live over the course of a single week. Serendipitously, both Jenn Wasner and Meg Duffy of Hand Habits were available and eager to step in for the sessions. "I had this one beautiful precious week, and everything just fell into place. My dream team that came together just in the nick of time,” says Mirah.
Throughout the week they had together, Mirah, Wasner, Duffy, Maguire, and engineer Rob Shelton worked to draw out the fullest, most expressive renditions of Dedication's songs. The rolling, vaporous "Bride of Frankenstein" erupts from a whisper to a yelp as it rakes its fingers through all the strains a relationship can weather over the years. "Stumbling" wraps the horrors and frustrations of the pandemic up into an exuberant shout-along chorus: a sparkler against the darkness of those acutely terrifying years. On "Catch My Breath," Mirah and her band don '80s power pop, complete with chirping synthesizers and gleaming earworms a la The Cars. Written during a Massachusetts artists' residency when Mirah's child was eight months old, "Mama Me" encapsulates the joys of new parenthood with brassy aplomb. And, in turn, "New Jersey Turnpike" is a wrenching elegy to Mirah's father: a slow, spacious rumination on the fragility of life and the love that fills it.
Love is proof that we're here: that we've reached out into the world, tangled with it, and grown from it as it grows around us. With Dedication, Mirah details the intricacies of love as it streaks through us – in beginnings and in endings, in moments of bitter hardship and unmitigated joy.