Kitty Empire 

Holly Miranda: The Magician’s Private Library

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' producer takes Holly Miranda into his dreamworld, says Kitty Empire
  
  


Since his work with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, not to mention his own band, TV on the Radio, New York's David Sitek has been the go-to producer for anyone seeking a luxe sense of disorientation. His latest collaborator is Holly Miranda, once of a more conventionally rockular outfit, The Jealous Girlfriends. Miranda's solo debut takes her headlong down Sitek's rabbit-hole into an underworld thick with wooze and brass. It feels like a slightly unequal pairing, with Sitek smothering Miranda's vocals more than necessary. But it suggests a dreamier TVOTR fronted by a contralto Cat Power.

 

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