Myra Lee Share New Single And Video ‘Ten’ From Debut EP ‘Capture The Flag’
Brooklyn alt-rock trio Myra Lee have shared ‘Ten’, the latest focus track from their debut release ‘Capture The Flag’, out June 26 via DSPS.
Formerly known as Dino Expedition, the band is made up of Tahlia Amanson on vocals and guitar, Aiden Velazquez on bass and McCabe Teems on drums. They take their name from Cat Power’s 1996 album ‘Myra Lee’, which feels fitting for a group drawn to raw feeling, open tunings and the more unvarnished side of ’90s indie rock.
‘Ten’ looks back at the long, awkward stretch between early teenage years and adulthood, where identity starts to form but often takes years to properly understand. Amanson describes the song as being about “the decade separating the entry of my teens, to adulthood,” and about moving past fear of other people’s opinions while coming to terms with identity and sexuality.
That personal weight runs through ‘Capture The Flag’. Recorded over two days in a basement studio on the Lower East Side, the six-song release was live-tracked with engineer Jeremy Harris and later mixed and mastered by Calvin Lauber in Memphis. The result keeps the band close to the room: guitars scraping and drifting, vocals sitting plainly in the middle, and a rhythm section that gives the songs enough weight without making them feel overworked.
Across ‘Corkscrew Drawers’, ‘Magpie’, ‘Dean’ and now ‘Ten’, Myra Lee have built a small but very direct world around grief, sexuality, alcoholism, memory and self-recognition. The songs are not polished smooth, and that is part of their strength. They sound like a young band finding its shape by leaving the nerves in.
Headline photo: Riley Natalova
