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Mirah
The Garden
Advisory Committee (2002)

At some point, I will probably pick up Mirah’s new-but-old album, “Old Days of Feeling.” It actually consists of a number of unreleased and barely released material from Mirah’s early career—the entirety of Small Sale is included, but unfortunately not the sublime Storageland, which means I must continue to live life without a copy of “Telescope.” That’s okay, though, because as everyone knows, early Mirah is the best kind of Mirah, all carbureted sighs and twinkles in your eyes.

Of course, the re-release of old material, no matter how good, is never going to make a particularly big splash, and in any case it’s not as though Mirah’s repertoire is particularly well-known. How, then, to explain a remix of “The Garden” selling 22,000 downloads this past week? If you read Mirah’s Wikipedia entry, you’ll get a hint, but maybe you’d better just watch this video instead.

Fast forward to 0:48, or watch the whole thing if you dare. Either way, it’s a terrifically bizarre confluence of indie singer-songwriter and… um… I think that’s called… dancing? Or maybe some strange pantomime art? In any case, I never thought I’d see the day when a Mirah song played during prime time on Fox, but there you go.

update: As expected, YouTube took the video down. So for those in the dark: “The Garden” was used as the backing music for a “jazz” number on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance?.

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