The Mynabirds have released a video for "Golden Age", from the forthcoming album BE HERE NOW, out on August 25 via Saddle Creek. Directed by Jason Lester and starring Nicole Laliberte (the new "Twin Peaks"), "Golden Age" takes inspiration from artist Ragnar Kjartansson's "Woman in E", and may similarly move people to tears.
"Golden Age", written by
Laura Burhenn (aka The Mynabirds), speaks to the sadness and fear gripping our nation, touching on neo-nazism and white supremacy, global warming, the border wall, anti-black, anti-muslim and anti-semitic hatred, and the way politics and digital media is dividing families and friends. Most importantly the song is about hanging on to hope, inviting all of us to stand up and fight for everything the statue of liberty represents: Freedom, justice and equality for all.
Lyrics to "Golden Age" can be found below.
Watch and share the video here.
BE HERE NOW features 9 songs written and recorded in just 2 weeks in January 2017 following the Inauguration and the Women's March. The album is the result of a spontaneous effort to document the news and people's emotional reactions to it in real time. No stranger to politics in her songwriting, Laura aimed to speak from the voice of the collective consciousness in a work of "Emotional Journalism," singing the heartbreak, anger, exhaustion and resolute hope she witnessed during the Muslim travel ban, the final stand at Standing Rock, and every other news story that rattled America in that period. The album vacillates in style and feel to reflect a frayed nation, featuring a Burundian refugee choir on one song, and a cacophony of dissonant saxophones in a new national anthem on another. It is the last recording made in that space.
BE HERE NOW was released as 3-EP set this summer, which culminates in an official album this Friday, August 25, 2017.
Catch
The Mynabirds LIVE, gather as a community
and
BE HERE NOW:
August 25: Los Angeles, CA @
Bootleg Theater (tix
here)
September 20:
Washington DC @ DC 9 (tix
here)
September 21: Brooklyn, NY @ Sunnyvale (tix
here)
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