B. Miles is thrilled to bring you her new full-length release backed with a full band. Titled Different Pages, it marks a watershed moment for the singer/songwriter, with songs filled with self-revelations and piercing perceptions (find our previous features on B.Miles’ release Here and Here).
To celebrate the LP’s release, Miles bring us her second single from the album, the vulnerable and delicate indie-pop cut “Backseat Lover.” The new song puts Miles’ deeply emotional experiences on display with intimate lyrics that evoke a romance facing a unspoken schism, ever widening, while simultaneously being incomparably close to that person as they slowly fade into shadow. Miles’ vocals are hypnotizing as they rise and fall creating the same spiraling effect that her thoughts do while she lies awake next to her love. She spills out the lyrics with breathy intimacy, “That these pillow thoughts keep turning in my mind” even imagining the chilling partner simultaneously living in that awareness directly next to her, “Are we staring at the same ceiling cloud?” This raw songwriting took newly founded bravery – Miles speaks of that candor when discussing the new song here:
“This is a song I felt uncomfortable releasing for quite some time, but my bandmates encouraged me to not write scared. It’s a very honest song, it might verge on the edge of too much honesty.”
You can see that it still gives Miles pause to be so open about the pain of growing colder on someone so dear, further seen with her outro, “My friends still tell me, ‘don’t you ever write scared’//But my words could break your skin”
Listen to B. Miles new song “Backseat Lover” now on Spotify and Youtube. Find more from Miles on their Instagram.