Herethereafter

Miranda Lee Richards - Herethereafter

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Artist: Miranda Lee Richards
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-08-28
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
  1. The Beginner
  2. The Long Goodbye
  3. Folkin' Hell
  4. Right Now
  5. I Know What It's Like
  6. Ella
  7. Last Solstice of the 70's
  8. Dandelion
  9. Beauty Queen
  10. Seven Hours
  11. The Landscape

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Free Music Review: Sweet Melancholy
Hit: 5 Stars

Beauty can be a mixed blessing, especially in the case of a female singer-songwriter with a past in modeling, seeking serious consideration as an artiste.

"The Herethereafter," Miranda Lee Richard's first album, however, should go a long way to showing that Beauty isn't always a Beast when it comes to talent. Despite the fact that the soft, psychedelic-tinged folk rock of the album makes it clear that her musical homeland is obviously the Sixties, Richards is nevertheless one of the freshest-sounding singer-songwriters out there.

With a soft, sweet, sirenesque voice that is both sensual and relaxing, adorning beautiful melodies, her music has obvious appeal anywhere, but how about her lyrics? Wistful, poetic, and intelligent, they skillfully set off the delicate aural textures of her music and voice.

While Richards' melodies are mellifluous there is also a strong strain of melancholy in her songs. The hypnotic "Folkin' Hell," is, according to Richards, about a woman whose strength and self-reliance ultimately leaves her feeling lonely. While the song she claims was the hardest to write, the wrenching "Seven Days," was her attempt to write about drug addiction in a way that didn't seem preachy.

Unless you're lucky enough to think life is a beach party, a beautiful blonde chirping away cheerfully about the joys of life can become rather irritating, so this element of melancholy in her music strikes just the right balance. After all, as she said in one interview, "I think that almost all the best songs have that melancholy factor."

Light enough to be uplifting, but with enough dignity and sadness to anchor it to the real world, her music represents an achievement that many a more experienced musician would find difficult to pull off. "The Herethereafter" goes a long way to disproving the popular theory that equates beauty with air-headedness.

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Japanese edition of the alternative singer/songwriter's 2001 debut album with two bonus tracks added 'Swamp Song' & 'When We Go Walkin'. Slipcase.
Model-turned-songstress Miranda Richards has more talent up her sleeve than the ability to smile for a camera. The twentysomething singer-songwriter has released an excellent debut CD, a mix of alt-country pop songs dosed in psychedelics. From her cover of the Rolling Stones gem "Dandelion" to the originals she penned herself, The Herethereafter is simple and beautiful, featuring a Beatles-meets-Sheryl Crow pop sensibility and a Mazzy Star/Mojave 3 softness. Richard's hypnotic vocals are reminiscent of those of Sundays front woman Harriet Wheeler, but her music is peppier and more produced than the Sundays' sleepy dreamscapes. Backed by guests like the Beachwood Sparks and Jon Brion (producer for Rufus Wainwright and Aimee Mann), Richards has created a solid collection of well-textured tracks (many of which use strings to great effect) buoyed by her ability to project both sweetness and strength in her angelic vocals. --Jennifer Maerz

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