Premiere: Mia Day Shares New Single “Mountain Music”
New Album Hellier, Endlessly Due Out Might seventeenth
Apr 18, 2024
Images by Deliliah Lovejoy and Eli Lu
Seattle-based indie rock singer/songwriter Mia Day debuted along with her 2018 full-length effort Gold, which initially discovered her evoking strains of plaintive Americana. Nevertheless, somewhat than staying in that lane, the next years have been ones of transition. Throughout this era she attended faculty and toured the competition circuit earlier than navigating a yr of non-public upheaval, throughout which she wrote her forthcoming sophomore album, Hellier, Endlessly.
“For months I didn’t know what to do with myself, so I’d simply write songs day by day,” Day explains. “It’s additionally my scream-into-the-void album. It’s me saying, ‘I cannot disappear and I cannot let a single individual destroy me.”
She returned final month with the album’s lead single, “Severed,” which discovered Day evoking the grunge and alt rock of the ‘90s, and as we speak she’s again with one other new observe, “Mountain Music,” premiering with Underneath the Radar.
The place Day’s earlier observe burst out the gates with distorted guitars and massive melodies, “Mountain Music” affords a extra understated slow-burn, touchdown nearer to the sun-dappled folks of her earlier file. Nevertheless, working alongside Day’s heartfelt vocal efficiency and pastoral acoustic strums is a darker undercurrent, coloured by twisting and tangled guitar tones. The observe finds Day tearing by this shadowy haze of tones at one second, solely to settle right into a heat hovering sprawl within the subsequent. All alongside her lyrics search by emotions of heartache and longing, pining for a lover who’s not there: “It’s gonna take some time for me to listen to a track with out considering of you / As a result of I nonetheless wish to / How do I simply overlook the whole lot I felt with you? / I don’t wish to.”
Take a look at the track early beneath and pre-save it right here. Hellier, Endlessly is out on Might seventeenth.