- 2025-05-08
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MUSIC
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Amy Millan Releases New Song “The overpass”
Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter Amy Millan will release her third solo album “I Went To Find You” on May 30, 2025 via Last Gang Records.
It is her first album in 16 years since the 2009 album “Masters of the Burial”.
From the album, she released a new song “The overpass” along with a music video on May 7, 2025.
The song is the third single off of the album, following “Make way for waves” and “Wire walks”.
It was written by Amy Millan, and Jay McCarrol, who also produced the track.
The accompanying video was directed by Sara Melvin.
Amy Millan said of the song, "When I was 22, my first boyfriend's mom died. It was a shock, it happened fast. The night of her funeral, a group of us went over the Bloor viaduct in Toronto and a couple of us got on the ledge and walked across what could have been a deathly end. There was no protection from falling off and below is a hundred feet directly onto the highway. It was famous for suicides in Toronto until they finally put up protective wiring a few years ago ... That night still haunts me with the thought of what an idiot I was. As weird as aging is, being in my 20s was a stupid time. Kissing all my friends to figure out which one was the one. It was all very unruly and I felt mostly lost. Turning 30 was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never believe people when they say 'oh the good old days' so my sardonic sarcastic feeling on that notion finally made it into a lyric."- The new album comprises 9 tracks, which she recorded at Lost River in Canada's Laurentian Forest, co-written and produced by Jay McCarrol.
Millan described the collection as “gentle songs for difficult times. I wanted to make a record for your nervous system.”
She continued, “A lot of this record had me looking into my past for clues on who I have become and why. The 'you' of the title is the people I found, the people I went looking for after they'd gone - and the 'you' is the person you become when all these components align.” -
Background photo by Tess Roby - source : Apple Music
