Stream: Miya Folick, ‘Trouble Adjusting’

Kevin Bronson on May 15th, 2017

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In her early work, L.A. indie-rocker Miya Folick has drawn comparisons to the most visceral of ’90s artists as well as contemporaries such as Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, forging a sound that is part grunge, part dream-pop and all bloodletting. It’s about identity: The conversations between her strong and vulnerable sides feel so real you’re drawn in. It doesn’t hurt that a lot of her songs shred.

So it is with Folick’s new single “Trouble Adjusting,” her first of 2017 and the follow-up to two singles she released last year, “God Is a Woman” and “Pet Body.” The Orange County-reared songwriter, whose debut EP came out in 2015, announced last week that she has signed with Terrible Records (Twin Shadow, Blood Orange, Moses Sumney, Kirin J. Callinan), with the EP “Give It To Me” on the way later this year (when she will be touring as support for Foster the People). Folick points out that the EP might not be what her album ends up sounding like.

“I was writing an album and realized there were a group of songs that didn’t seem to fit,” she told Noisey, where the new song premiered. “I wanted a proper documentation of the particular sound and energy of our live show, to share but also for myself. My life has changed a lot in the last couple years and that has so much to do with these songs and the people who have been playing them with me. I didn’t even consider myself a musician two years ago. This song is probably a bit of a reaction to that — new people, new environments, new experiences all flooding into my life at top speed, and me trying to navigate them without losing myself. I’m very grateful for the life I have, but sometimes I’m not very good at living it.”

|| Stream: “Trouble Adjusting”