“Miranda” is Lesibu Grand’s Retro-Futurist Pop Song About Navigating Self-Doubt and Our Over-Connected World

LesibuGrand4_crop — Lesibu Grand, photo courtesy the artist

“Miranda” by Atlanta’s Lesibu Grand (pronounced Le-SEE-boo Grand) makes no bones about taking its sonic cues from Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde-period Pixies. Its distorted guitar lead surfing along a melodic wave when not accenting the rhythm with a tasty, crunchy riff may remind some listeners of another alternative rock era contemporary, Liz Phair. The song employs tones of nostalgia conjuring that mythical America of innocence and middle class normalcy that ended on television with The Brady Bunch but it’s a nice contrast to a song about personal uncertainty and navigating the modern world where it’s too easy to snoop in on everyone’s lives and the effect that has on you policing yourself in situations where it stifles your natural self and opt for being some mediated version of self all the time and how that impacts having real relationships with people and leading an authentic life. With synths bubbling outward from the song and the melody expanding into outer space, “Miranda” sounds retro-futurist in a wonderfully unconventional way as the B-52’s did a few decades back. Tyler-Simone Molton’s vocals strike the perfect balance of wistful and soulful and helps turn what might be considered by some a kitschy throwback song of a sort into something compellingly thoughtful. Listen to the song below and to delve further into the group’s background and material check out the links provided afterward.