- 2026-03-10
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MUSIC
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Paul Russell Releases New EP “Miracle Mile”
Los Angeles-based rapper Paul Russell released his sophomore EP “Miracle Mile” on March 6, 2026 via via Arista Records.
It is his first project since the 2024 EP “Again Sometime?”.
The EP comprises 7 tracks, produced by Adam Friedman, Dayle, Jason Ren, Johnny May, Josh Murty, Julian Nixon, Keith Sorrells, Noah Conrad, OAK, Ray Goren, Scotty Mearig and Sean Cook.
The EP title is named after the neighborhood in Los Angeles Paul Russell calls home, Miracle Mile.
It is a love letter to his community and is the culmination of his spending the last year slowing down, spending time with his people and reflecting on his gratitude for community, faith and self-discovery.
Paul Russell said of the EP, “I'm a little bit nervous. It is terrifying to release new music. You make something that feels really valuable and meaningful to you, and then you have to kind of have your hands off and let it, like, mean something to whoever it's gonna mean something to. And if I am not involved in the lives of the people around me, this becomes everything. But if it's like, this is all under the same umbrella as helping my friend move, or being there for Meg, then there's purpose in every day. I wanted to just say, I hope you don't lose that sense of purpose and that sense of excitement, and creativity. When I was making this EP, I was thinking a lot about being at home, and thinking of home as like the relationships that I have the people who I care about. I went in and just kind of spoke from the heart. Like, let me just say what I think needs to be said, and what I feel is impactful, and what I feel like is the most human thing that I'm feeling right now, and hopefully other people connect to that.”- He added, “Miracle Mile is about appreciating your community and the people you love. In 2025 I slowed down for a bit and spent more time with family, which for me was the Miracle Mile area in LA that I'd recently moved to. I spent a lot of time catching up with old friends, rediscovering old passions, growing in my faith. During that time, I wrote many of these songs based on real conversations I had with loved ones. For me, being home felt like it really was a miracle, so I wanted to put together a project that reminds people of all the things there are to appreciate about the miracle of their own communities.”
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Paul Russell explained some tracks for the EP.
“High Maintenance”
“I remember hearing Luther Vandross songs like 'Never Too Much' and 'A House is Not a Home' as a kid, when I was on the way to school or around older family members. And the joke was always that I'd understand it when I'm older. Now I'm old enough to get it – I've felt love, gotten married, started a life. But I still feel young too. I'm at the age where sometimes I feel like the kid on the way to school and other times I feel like the parent. So to me, 'High Maintenance,' as a dance floor song with roots in 80s soul, is an ode to the old and the young parts of ourselves coexisting. My hope is that it doesn't just help us appreciate the different sides of ourselves but that it also brings together different generations. It's a song that anyone can find themselves in, something we all can dance to, no matter how old we are.”
“Carat Cake”
“'Carat Cake' is a song made for birthdays and weddings and celebrations. It's for the moments when you want to dance and give your all to someone you care about, which is what the song is about. We wrote part of the song in the house where 'September' was written, and we hope it can become part of the cannon of joyful, funky songs you can drink champagne to.”
Photo by @Daniel - source : Apple Music
