The songs on the debut and the following record Apart exemplify just how integral Mira was to the second-wave shoegaze scene, a largely overlooked and distinctly American outgrowth of what had been happening in the UK a decade earlier. Looking back on these songs now, as the shoegaze revival is fully underway and bands we looked up to like My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive are making music again, I’m struck by how vital and prescient these songs sound. “Twenty years ago, Mira approached Sam from Projekt with a demo tape containing many of the songs that would form our debut record.
The song “Cayman,” while written about a cat, tugs at the heartstrings in a way that few songs can, building upon itself with sweeping layers of guitar and Regina Sosinska’s sweetly detached vocals.” “Their debut, a transitional record, perfectly dabbled in all three styles over the course of nine original tracks and a beautifully understated cover of a My Bloody Valentine classic that sleepily traded in the noise and focused on the song’s true essence. Our editor Frank Deserto wrote about the album for their entry in our Definitive Dreaminess list: Hailing from the bowels of Florida and channeling bands such as The Cure, Lush, and Cranes, Mira cut a demo tape in 1999 and quickly found a perfect home on Projekt Records, a label well aligned with dream pop, shoegaze, and ethereal music. Projekt Records dream pop act Mira are re-releasing their self-titled debut LP from 2000 as a name-your-price download via Bandcamp.
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