Miranda Lee Richards w/Nettwerk Debut

"Light of X" hits stores Feb. 10, 2009

by Blurt Staff

MIranda Lee Richards latest album, "Light of X" will be her Nettwerk debut and is set to be released on February 10, 2009.  "Courtney Taylor from the Dandy Warhols calls my genre 'Pixie Fairy Dust Chick Music,'" says singer/songwriter Miranda Lee Richards. "But I think another fitting description for Light of X might be 'Psychedelic Chamber Folk Rock'."

Prior to that Richards will be releasing her appropriately titled Early November EP digitally onto iTunes November 4, also through Nettwerk.

 For her new album, Richards composed all the material, string arrangements, acoustic guitar, piano and Hammond B3 on the disc. A label press release said, "LIGHT OF X is an album full of love and loss, desolation and salvation, both moody and comforting."

Richards teamed with producer/engineer/mixer Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Von Bondies) who also contributed the electric and twelve-string guitar arrangements.  Eva Gardner (Mars Volta, Tim Burgess) plays bass, the main drummer is Keith Mitchell (Mazzy Star), Ben Peeler (Wallflowers, Shelby Lynne) is on pedal steel; and Josh Schwartz (Beachwood Sparks) plays guitar.

Richards grew up in San Francisco, the daughter of Ted and Teresa Richards, stars of the underground comics scene. Her bohemian background led her to play in school bands, but she never considered music as a profession until her senior year of high school when an older best friend of Richards started dating Kirk Hammett of Metallica. Hammett soon taught Richards her first few guitar chords and Richards recorded her first demo in the basement of Hammett's studio.  She soon landed a spot in the Brian Jonestown Massacre, a record deal of her own, and a spot singing "Just Like Honey" next to the Jesus and Mary Chain on their 2007 reunion tour.

"Light of X" track listing:

1)      Breathless

2)      Life Boat

3)      Savorin' Your Smile

4)      Hideaway

5)      Early November

6)      Mirror At The End

7)      Hidden Treasure

8)      Pictures Of You

9)      Here By The Window

10)  Olive Tree

11)  That Baby

12)  Last Days Of Summer

13)  Oddity