Music Feeds’ Love Letter to a Record series asks artists to reflect on their relationship with the music they love and share stories about how it has influenced their lives. Here, Sydney live-electronic trio and beloved club curators Miramar share a heartfelt ode to Lorde’s chart-topping 2017 sophomore album ‘Melodrama’.
It comes as Miramar ready their own sophomore EP for release mid-year, following a stacked run of live shows to kickstart 2025, supporting the likes of Groove Armada, Mickey Kojack, Northeast Party House, and Djanaba. Our latest cut of their forthcoming record dropped last month, in the form of a stripped-back, emotional indie-pop ballad dubbed ‘Highlight Of My Week’. “It’s a bit different to our usual sound, but we found the more we added to the production, the more it got in the way of that feeling,” Miramar explain. “So we peeled it back to the bones and in the end, less was more.” Listen to ‘Highlight Of My Week’, and read Miramar’s love letter to Lorde’s ‘Melodrama’ down below.
Miramar – ‘Highlight Of My Week’
Miramar: Lorde’s Melodrama: the soundtrack to the genesis of Miramar with the infectious melodies of ‘Supercut’ and ‘Sober’ woven through our earliest memories as friends and fellow music lovers. A perfect album from start to finish, the kind where every song feels essential and no song will ever be skipped. In our early 20’s, the lyrics of this album were a reassuring guide for moving through life, fumbling through uncertainty and figuring it all out.
Although already housemates, ‘Homemade Dynamite’ was the song that first brought us together for music. For a triple j Unearthed competition, we remixed it in our cramped uni bedrooms, working on a shared Ableton account that had cost us every last dollar. We were the definition of broke uni students, surviving on cheap beer and half-price steak nights at the local pub for our only dose of iron.
But somehow, in 2018 we found the cash to get to Splendour in the Grass with borrowed cars, a Kmart tent and a yoga mat for a bed. Lorde headlined Friday night, and it was nothing short of a spiritual experience. We danced, we sang, we cried. A moment of pure joy. As ‘Green Light’ closed the set and green confetti rained down, something in us ignited and seven years later, that fire is still burning. Through our music we are forever chasing that feeling Lorde created that night in the amphitheater, and we hope to create a body of work as honest and impactful as Melodrama. On the ten hour drive back from Byron to Sydney, tired, filthy and dehydrated, we used those uninterrupted hours to plan the exciting details of forming a new band and wrote our first song, ‘Smokemachine’. In 2021, this track was finally released as our debut single with the lyrics “it all just fades away in the haze of a smoke machine.” describing that moment in the mosh together where Miramar was born.
Further Reading
Lorde Review – Pop Star Illuminates Her Multitudes at Sydney ‘Solar Power’ Show
Indy Yelich, Lorde’s Sister, Announces Debut EP And Shares New Single
Lorde Reflects On The ‘Painful’ Response To Her ‘Solar Power’ Era
