Advisory Committee by Mirah

Advisory Committee, Mirah's second album, came out on K Records in March 2002, and she made it the slow way: recording stretched across most of a year, from September 2000 to July 2001, with Mirah co-producing alongside Phil Elvrum of the Microphones. That patience shows. She had come up through the Olympia, Washington, scene, and this still has the homemade, slightly crackly charm of that world, but the arrangements swell and recede around a voice that sounds startlingly sure of itself.

"Cold Cold Water" is the standout, a song that surges in like the tide. Critics were on board: AllMusic gave it 4.5 out of 5 and Pitchfork an 8.3, singling out how grown-up her singing and writing had become. It followed her debut, You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This, and the Small Sale EP came next.

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