Sounds Like: A vulnerable descent through feelings and genre.
Often, when I focus on drawing, I will build a quick playlist to listen. Usually based on my mood that day, it consists of a few new releases, a few old favorites, maybe a live album in there. There was period over the summer when I would be completly caught off guard when “Roach” would start up. I hadn’t yet gained my familiarity with the album, and from the opener on it had me it it’s grip. With each successive listen, my este for this record continued to grow by leaps and bounds.
What struck me about this “Roach” was how it did what alot of this year’s most hyped albums did, but better. Way better. There is real honesty and vulnerability in the song writing, but each track is thoughtfully constructed, with hooks and layers that continue to evolve. That’s a big point to understand about “Roach:” each song is it own unique entity, maybe borrowing from a different genre than the last one, but it creates it’s own world.
These songs are all bound by one thing: the unique world view of their creator. Themes carrying through the music, and by the end your left with an indelible portrait of an artist, human and fallible. More over it has a point of view. I can’t believe I have to call out why that matters, but a lot of music today in written is such broad, universal, strokes because it wants to appeal to everyone.
Miya Folick sings from a personal perspective, about her location, her parents, her relationships. All is revealed and in that specificity you get what you lack from some many modern songwriters: Real conncection. In the social media age, we continually feel disconnected, and our music reflects that more and more. So huge praise to Miya Folick, for recognizing that connection begins with authenticity, and having the courage to put herself out there to achieve it, because it yield one of the strongestt albums in years,
Favorite Track: The opener, “Oh God” takes my breath away, But also have to commend “So Clear,” which dances across the stratosphere. It is the perfect late album palette cleanser.
Check out Miya Folick’s Bandcamp page for more!
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CARGO COLLECTIVE LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
CARGO COLLECTIVE LOS ANGELES, CALIF.