The Mynabirds are back with a hushed, neck-prickling urgency on their latest single, "Ramona, Patron Saint Of Silence," taken from their upcoming album, "It's Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward," due out November 7, 2025, via Our Secret Handshake. A delicate conversation between you and the song, the track is true to its title, a soft rock meditation in introspection and emotional honesty.
Recorded at 64 Sound with Rilo Kiley's Pierre de Reeder, the track manages to embody a unique sense of urgency, inspired by the team's decision to capture Laura's grand piano and live vocals together in the room, along with all the other instrumentation, which was performed live. The result is an intimate, scratchy, and profoundly human performance. There is no autotune, no digital legerdemain, just music at its most elemental and emotional, with feeling dictating the rise and fall of each note.
The musical line it straddles is somewhere between soft rock and pop rock, with smooth vocals over subdued piano melodies and light drumming, and live instrumentation that never overpowers the voice. Laura's voice is as warm and precise on "Ramona, Patron Saint Of Silence" as in their earlier work, leading you through increasingly subtle shifts of tone and feeling. There's a meditative quality here, an invitation to pause, breathe, and reflect, all of which are heightened when you consider the album revisits past Mynabirds tracks along with new music.
"Ramona, Patron Saint of Silence" feels like the heart of "It's Okay To Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward." It is an acknowledgment of the past and a move toward the new, one that feels rooted in the album's stripped-back ethos. The song demonstrates that strength can also be displayed quietly, with more power than grandiosity, and the tenderness of the performance draws you into an immediate and authentic connection. In a music culture seemingly obsessed with digital control and sonic buffet, The Mynabirds return to their roots in analog tape with the simple intention of following what feels good in real life, and to lay it down the best way they know how. "Ramona, Patron Saint Of Silence" is a hushed, powerful reminder of what music can do when left to simply breathe.
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