Mirah announces reissue of You Think It’s Like This but Really It’s Like This, including bonus tribute album
Singer/songwriter Mirah is reissuing her debut album You Think It’s Like This but Really It’s Like This as a double LP for its 20th anniversary. The album will be released on July 31 via Double Double Whammy, with the first LP featuring the original remastered album and the second LP a tribute to the original album, featuring covers of its 16 tracks by Mount Eerie, Why?, Y La Bamba, Shamir, Sad 13, Allison Crutchfield and more.
The first track released from it is Mount Eerie’s cover of “Of Pressure.” Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, a friend and former bandmate of Mirah’s, said in a press release, “It was a joy to record my version of Mirah’s song ‘Of Pressure’ using the old cassette 4 track and all the instruments we used to use together in the old days. Same air organ, same antique drum machine, same chaos. I remember when Mirah first recorded her original. It was part of a batch of songs that she worked on independently of our collaboration in Dub Narcotic studio. Her 4 track world. That one was a big built world of mounting layers, the feeling of pressure and depth. I loved it and I still do. I wanted to see if I could make it a little more oppressive even.”
Hear it below and take a look at the tracklist.
Mirah You Think It’s Like This but Really It’s Like This tracklist:
1. Million Miles
2. Sweepstakes Prize
3. Of Pressure
4. This Dance
5. La Familia
6. Gone Sugaring
7. Person Person
8. Engine Heart
9. Archipelago
10. 100 Knives
11. Murphy Bed
12. Pollen
13. Small Town
14. Water and Sleep
15. Telephone Wires
16. Words Cannot Describe
17. Words Cannot Describe (2020 Version)
Tribute LP tracklist:
1. WHY? (Feat. Gabby’s World) – Million Miles
2. Y La Bamba – Sweepstakes Prize
3. Mount Eerie – Of Pressure
4. Sad13 & Mal Blum – This Dance
5. Allison Crutchfield – La Familia
6. Madeline Kenney – Gone Sugaring
7. Maia Macdonald – Person Person
8. Lauren Ruth Ward – Engine Heart
9. Hand Habits – Archipelago
10. Flock of Dimes – 100 Knives
11. Half Waif – Murphy Bed
12. Shamir – Pollen
13. Palehound – Small Town
14. Arthur Moon (Feat. Aviva Jaye) – Water and Sleep
15. Night Shop & La Louma – Telephone Wires
16. The Blow – Words Cannot Describe