Video: Miya Folick, ‘Stock Image’
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Miya Folick’s songs so far have had such a strong sense of … well, Miya Folick that it’s hard to imagine the conceit behind her new latest single. “‘Stock Image’ is the conversation you have with yourself when you’re feeling lost and your color has faded,” she says. “When you’re too focused on inhabiting a certain image and then suddenly you realize your insides are empty, that you’re just a frame. I wrote it from a place of feeling shallow and gray and wanting to feel full! Deep! Vibrant! I hope it makes you feel lush and colored in.”
Vibrant? That it is. Co-produced by Justin Raisen (Sky Ferreira, Charli XCX, Santigold, Angel Olsen), the bubbling synth-pop number — a stylistic shift from much of her earlier work — is the second tease from the Santa Ana native’s debut full-length, release date TBA. It follows the slow-burner “Deadbody,” which came out in March via Terrible Records, the label co-founded by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor, which released Folick’s second EP, “Give It to Me,” last November.
The video, directed by Bryan Schlam, finds Folick frolicking merrily around a city that is not Los Angeles. Not that she was a “Stock Image” at any moment thus far in her young career, but … what’s the word again? Vibrant!
||| Watch: The video for “Stock Image”
||| Also: Watch the video for “Deadbody”
||| Live: Miya Folick performs tonight at Zebulon and on July 15 as part of the Little Tokyo Garden Concerts series.
||| Previously: Favorite EPs of 2017; favorite videos of 2017; “Woodstock,” “Give It to Me,” “Trouble Adjusting,” “Pet Body” “Oceans” “Strange Darling” EP
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