Though not nearly as exotic as her name, Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn’s third album is a tour de force of sly pop music. Mainly recorded with Phil Elvrum (The Microphones) and partly recorded with Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening), "C’Mon Miracle" is most certainly K Records at its purest. Totally unconscious singer/songwriter stuff, with one eye on the four-track and the other eye averted from your gaze. If The Microphones had a female alter ego, Mirah could well be it. There is no doubt "C’Mon Miracle" is a pop record; it is just the way she and Phil twist the conventions to make the lazy listener sit up in surprise. When the chorus finally does arrive in a song like 'Don’t Die In Me' it barely manages to make it to the final line before there is a swift fade to silence just as the drums start to find any momentum. These tiny tricks which mark out Mirah’s album as one you could happily devote an entire weekend and a pair of headphones to. You won’t be exasperated by any kinda pseudo-arty avante-underground nonsense: nor will you be easily tired of her singalong tunes. While the press release may namecheck Cat Power, PJ Harvey and Juliana Hatfield as past comparisons, it should be noted Mirah possesses nothing of the pop polish of those performers. Perhaps a Joanna Newsom, if you can’t settle for the simpler Microphones-minus-a-rib metaphor.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Nobody Has to Stay
2. Jerusalem
3. The Light
4. Don't Die in Me
5. Look Up!
6. We're Both So Sorry
7. The Dogs of B.A.
8. The Struggle
9. You've Gone Away Enough
10. Promise to Me
11. Exactly Where We're From