Kevin Bronson on July 22nd, 2022

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For your Friday viewing, new visuals from Miya Folick, Starcrawler and the Garden, all of whom have bigger releases on the way …

MIYA FOLICK, “Nothing to See”

The follow-up to “Ordinary” and “Oh God,” the powerful confessional “Nothing to See” is imbued with the fragility of someone who knows she’s overly needy but wary enough to stand up for herself. The tune introduces Folick’s new EP, “2007,” which comes out Sept. 9 via Nettwerk and follows her debut LP, “Premonitions” (2018). “This song is about falling in love with someone emotionally unavailable,” Folick says of the tune, produced by Andrew Sarlo. “Someone whose feelings and desires were so obscured to me and themselves, that I had to become a detective. I studied their life for clues and tried to fit the role of the person I thought they’d like. Eventually we broke up, and I realized that I’d lost the plot on my own life. My body and personality and life were so populated by the interests of this person, that once they were gone, there was nothing left to see. But, to me, this song isn’t bleak. I think there’s power in being brave enough to say, ‘I was made a fool by you.’” Director Noah Kentis’ video is subtle and revealing. Meanwhile, Folick just announced a Sept. 27 date at the Teragram Ballroom.

STARCRAWLER, “Stranded”

“Stranded,” arriving on the heels of the June single “She Said” and May’s “Roadkill,” “Stranded” is the latest step in the march toward the Sept. 16 release of Starcrawler’s new album, “She Said.” Director Gilbert Trejo rounds up a stellar cast for the video — and Henri Cash’s guitar licks star on the song, which has an interesting backstory. “At the beginning of COVID, I was missing the adrenaline of having a show and driving out to play it, so I would just be driving my car around with nowhere to go and trying to write something and being so uninspired,” Cash says. “And then one day I got hit by another car on Figueroa in Highland Park — and it turned out to be Phoebe Bridgers’ guitar player. The song came from that rock ’n’ roll car crash and became a joke song about Tim’s [bassist Franco] weird crush on Phoebe Bridgers — and then it became about something totally different.” The quartet just announced a Sept. 16 date at the Troubadour.

THE GARDEN, “Orange County Punk Rock Legend”

Brother duo/aural agitators Wyatt and Fletcher Shears materialize as jesters in the video for the Garden’s new single, “Orange County Punk Rock Legend.” It’s got a sunny little riff and their characteristic caustic attitude — and, following “Freight Yard,” it’s the latest tate of their forthcoming album, “Horseshit on Route 66.” The song, Wyatt Shears explains, “was written in the back of an old restaurant called Yang Ming. I decided to write it after being slapped by the old cook.” William Sipos directs the video. The Garden headline the Palladium on Oct. 27.