Miranda Lee Richards

It all began when Richards met Kirk Hammett of Metallica in her senior high school year. He taught Richards a few songs on guitar and she then recorded her first demo in Hammett's basement studio. Miranda had since moved down the coast to LA to further pursue a music career. After recording a few sets of demos, she signed with Virgin, and began tracking her debut, The Herethereafter. The Herethereafter enjoyed critical acclaim, and over 40 film and TV licenses that allowed her to continue playing music full time. Since its release, Miranda has collaborated in the studio with many well known musicians. She joined The Jesus and Mary Chain for the West Coast leg of their 2007 tour, supported Tim Finn (Crowded House) in 2008 and toured the UK in support of a vinyl single called "Life Boat" on Sonic Cathedral. Light of X, her full-length sophomore effort, is moody and introspective. The album fairly shimmers with folk, country, psychedelic, and even classical influences. As a songwriter, Richards has an uncanny knack of finding the diamonds in the dust of every day life and the relationships within. She's able to look at an average moment and describe it in a way that transforms it into something much more powerful, a talent evident on every tack of Light of X. The album balances Richards' beautiful, close to the heart vocals, with music that has the wide open, spacious feel of a desert sky or an empty church. Call it Ambient Americana, or Richards' self coined term 'Psychedelic Chamber Folk Rock' if you like, Light of X is an album full of love and loss, desolation and salvation, both moody and comforting. Even the darkest shadow is cast by the light.

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