BE HERE NOW

“Burhenn is as heartbreaking and tuneful as her finest inspirations, while investing her songs with a calm fatalism that sets her apart.” - Pitchfork

“...multifaceted, intricate indie pop songs, usually centered around Burhenn’s rich, throaty voice... played sometimes for fizzy fun and sometimes for poignant melancholy.” - NPR

The Mynabirds' new album,BE HERE NOW, is a collection of 9 songs written and recorded in just 2 weeks in January 2017 following the Inauguration and the Women’s March. Singer Laura Burhenn worked with producer Patrick Damphier in his Nashville studio (which he was being evicted as the neighborhood began to gentrify, old warehouses turning to tech offices and luxury condos) to document the news and peoples’ intense emotional responses to it all 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.

American singer-songwriter Laura Burhenn is a shape-shifter who can’t sit still. Since 2010 she’s worked under the moniker The Mynabirds, releasing three critically acclaimed and stylistically different albums on Saddle Creek:What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood(2010) andGENERALS(2012), both produced by Richard Swift, andLovers Know(2015). She has also toured as a member of the Postal Service (2013) and Bright Eyes (2011), helped found Omaha Girls Rock (a non-profit helping young girls find their voices), and in 2013 gave a TED talk based on her “New Revolutionists” portrait project, exploring what it means to be a revolutionary woman in this day and age. Before The Mynabirds, Laura was a member of DC indie band Georgie James with Q And Not U’s John Davis, and also put out two self-produced solo albums on the label she founded herself, Laboratory Records.

Release Date : August 25th, 2017

TRACK LIST
01. Be Here Now  
02. New Moon 
03. Golden Age 
04. Shouting at the Dark  
05. Cocoon  
06. Witch Wolf 
07. Ashes in the Rain 
08. Hold On  
09. Wild Hearts