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Miya Folick - So Clear from the 2023 album Roach on Nettwerk.

Los Angeles-based musician Miya Folick released her sophomore full-length ROACH in late May, an album that unpacks \\u201ctrying to get to the core of what life really is,\\u201d according to Folick. Following her 2018 debut Premonitions and 2022\\u2019s 2007 EP, the album is full of rich, shimmery production with help from Gabe Wax (War on Drugs, Fleet Foxes), Mike Malchicoff (King Princess, Bo Burnham) and Max Hershenow (MS MR), heightening her quarter-life crisis to cinematic levels.

Our Song of the Day, \\u201cSo Clear,\\u201d is the moment Folick finally sees a way through the wreckage of prior mistakes. \\u201cI was desperate like you read in the paper,\\u201d she coos. \\u201cScreaming in oblivion /I was alone in a lonesome place /\'Til I finally said I\'m done.\\u201d Coupled with sun-drenched production from Hershenow, it\\u2019s a classic movie-montage moment with our main character breaking through. Folick says this about the song:

\\u201c\\u2018So Clear\\u2019 is about pulling yourself out of the wreckage you\\u2019ve made of your own life again and again, for the thousands of days we live on this earth and realizing life is so much more expansive than the petty concerns we waste precious time on. An epiphany that I have over and over again is that I am very small, but my actions are very meaningful. So I have to choose to live truthfully every day. It\\u2019s not easy! The song is very dramatic, and I imagined it as a good karaoke song when we were making it.\\u201d

Folick will be joining the Head and the Heart and Father John Misty for a North American tour starting in August, with a date in Spokane at the Pavilion at Riverfront on August 6th. Watch the visualizer for \\u201cSo Clear" and read the full post at KEXP.org.

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