Watch Miranda Lee Richards' Performance & Interview On YAHOO
By: Caryn Robbins Jun. 14, 2017
As she gears up for the release of her fourth studio album EXISTENTIAL BEAST out this Friday, June 16 via Invisible Hands Music, singer-songwriter-musician MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS stopped by YAHOO studios in Playa Vista, CA for a special acoustic performance and interview. Watch as MIRANDA performs three songs off her new album including "Ashes And Seeds," "Lucid I Would Dream," and "On The Outside of Heaven" followed by an intimate interview about her history and the making of the new album with YAHOO Music Editor Lyndsey Parker (HERE).
Beautifully constructed with her signature 1970's-influenced, country-tinged psychedelia, EXISTENTIAL BEAST was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dandy Warhols). Listen and share MIRANDA's first single "Lucid I Would Dream" onYAHOO (HERE) and YouTube (HERE).
The new album follows a busy year for MIRANDA which included the release Echoes of the Dreamtime (LP, 2016), U.S. and European tours and creating songs for the newViceland series "Jungletown." EXISTENTIAL BEAST is a political album, examining the current issues of our time, with the intent of tackling tough and taboo subjects in a poetic and heartfelt manner. The title is also a mash-up of terms, referencing the existential crisis that has risen. MIRANDA says of EXISTENTIAL BEAST, "We are working within those animal urges of fear, competition, survival and sexuality which are deep-seeded and manifesting in varying ways. Like it or not, these tendencies have been revealed, within our leaders, our countries and ourselves; it is indeed a pivotal and transformational moment in time and there is much work to be done."
Born in San Francisco after the summer of love and before the dawn of disco, MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS grew up in an artistic and bohemian environment that has informed her adult life and work. After graduating from San Francisco School Of The Arts, she began to pursue a musical career. She met Kirk Hammett from Metallica who taught her to play Mazzy Star songs on guitar. Her early demos reached Anton Newcombe and she joined his band, the Brian Jonestown Massacre. MIRANDA then signed to Virgin Records and released her debut album The Herethereafter, a mix of folk, psychedelia, country and indie pop and found fans worldwide. The critically acclaimed follow-up album Light Of X--the title of which comes from a dream about harnessing beams of light to travel in time--followed in 2009 via Nettwerk Records. In 2016, MIRANDA unveiled Echoes Of The Dreamtime on Invisible Hands Music, which received rave reviews across in the U.K. and U.S., as well as national airplay with MOJO giving the album 4 stars and hailing the first single, "The sublime 'First Light Of Winter' is the moment it all comes together, Richards transcending her influences and, no longer constrained, arriving at psychedelia's higher plane" (1/2016).EXISTENTIAL BEAST is yet another confident and inspiring piece of work from MIRANDA.
Look for MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS--known for her enchanting live shows--to perform the new album in venues across the U.S. and U.K. throughout the year (current tour dates listed below).
Catch MIRANDA LEE RICHARDS on tour in the following cities (HERE):
| DATE | CITY | VENUE | |
| 6/17 | Bergen, Norway | BergenFest (w/Ellie Goulding) | |
| 6/23 | London, U.K. | Thousand Island (acoustic trio) | |
| 6/25 | Northampton, U.K. | The Lamplighter (acoustic trio) | |
| 6/28 | Birmingham, U.K. | Ort Café (acoustic trio) | |
| 6/30 | Sheffield, U.K. | Regather (acoustic trio) | |
| 7/15 | San Francisco, CA | Brick & Mortar (Full band) | |
| 7/16 | Sacramento, CA | Blue Lamp (Full band) | |
| 7/18 | Seattle, WA | Sunset Tavern (Full band) | |
| 7/19 | Portland, OR | Doug Fir (Full band) | |
| 7/23 | Santa Cruz, CA | The Crepe Place (Full band) | |
| 8/19 | Brecon, U.K. | Green Man Festival (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/21 | Brighton, U.K. | Prince Albert (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/23 | London, U.K. | Moth Club (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/25 | Glasgow, U.K. | Mono (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/26 | York, U.K. | The Crescent (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/27 | Manchester, U.K. | The Castle (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/29 | Oslo, Norway | Café Mono (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 8/31 | Malmö, Sweden | Folk A Rock (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 9/1 | Göteborg, Sweden | Pustervik (Full band w/Gospelbeach) | |
| 9/2 | Stockholm, Sweden | Sthlm Americana at Mosebacke & Södra Teatern | |
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