Holly Miranda: The Magician's Private Library

Any TV on the Radio fan who stumbled upon Forest Green Oh Forest Green, the opening track of The ­Magician's Private Library, might wonder why it is ­attributed to Holly Miranda. Her voice is barely noticeable on it, overshadowed by the lustrous ­falsetto of Brendan Coon amid a shower of notes from trumpets, saxophones, keyboards and guitars. Having not been in the studio, it's impossible to say how much ­Miranda is responsible for the shimmering, luxuriant music on this album, and how much was conjured up by her magician of a producer, TVOR mastermind Dave Sitek. What is certain is that it's the ­music that is of dramatic, hypnotic ­interest here. ­Miranda's woozy vocals may be ­evocative of 2am desperation, but her spectral contributions to Joints or Slow Burn Treason could be effectively conveyed by a violin. For a singer's debut solo album, that's quite weird. http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/feb/18/holly-miranda-magicians-private-library • This article was amended on 19 February 2010. In the original, the falsetto voice was said to be that of Kyp Malone. This has been corrected.