The Mynabirds are back with “Ramona, Patron Saint of Silence”, the lead single from It’s Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward (out Nov. 7 on Our Secret Handshake). After an eight-year quiet hiatus, Laura Burhenn finds her voice again, fragile, raw, and intimate, captured in live takes with producer Pierre de Reeder. The record strips everything down to piano, voice, and room noise, swapping polish for imperfect, deeply human moments. Burhenn calls it an “ego death,” a return to late-night therapy sessions at the keys, where music became medicine again. True to her activist spirit, the album will skip Spotify in protest, but it doesn’t need algorithms to resonate—it already feels timeless.
What initially drew me in was how organic the vocals and instrumentation feel, and how much rawness is preserved in the deep left-hand octaves of the keys. The lap steel is especially tasteful, and the whole track stands a cut above most in its artistry. Listening to it genuinely elevates my existence.
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