MIYA FOLICK Shares New Single & Announces 2025 Tour Dates
MIYA FOLICK
SHARES NEW SONG “FIST”
ANNOUNCES 2025 TOUR DATES
EROTICA VERONICA OUT FEB 28 VIA NETTWERK
Miya Folick will release self-produced third album Erotica Veronica on February 28th via Nettwerk, and today she shares another preview of the record alongside the announcement of a North American tour. New single “Fist,” out now, is the album’s most outwardly tempestuous track. Starting with a sincere, almost apologetic recounting of her lover’s civility, Miya spirals progressively into anger, offering a hint that she - or the accumulation of pains big and small that have taken shape inside of her - may be the true antagonist in this narrative. The line “This rage, this rage, is my inheritance,” comes like a warning, before Miya releases a 10-second long scream of seismic reverberation. Listen to “Fist” now HERE & watch the video HERE.
“Fist is about rage,” Miya explains. “It’s about sexual trauma and generational trauma and what that does to our feelings of safety, self, and home. What it does to the people we are in relationship with. I wrote this song by candlelight in the first place I really considered my home, recorded with a team who really made me feel seen.”
Folick’s tour in support of Erotica Veronica kicks off on April 23rd and goes through the end of May. Pre-sales begin today with general on-sale starting this Friday, January 31 at 10am local time. All dates below.
Tour Dates:
4/23 - St Paul, MN @ Amsterdam Bar and Hall
4/24 - Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
4/25 - Detroit, MI @ El Club
4/27 - Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground
4/29 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall
4/30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Made
5/1 - Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
5/9 - Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
5/11 - Denver, CO @ Bluebird Theater
5/12 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
5/15 - Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
5/16 - Seattle, WA @ Madame Lou’s
5/17 - Portland, OR @ Holocene
5/21 - Los Angeles, CA @ Lodge Room
5/23 - Napa, CA @ BottleRock Festival
On the self-produced album, Folick is both audacious and hauntingly profound. Erotica Veronica is her psychosexual, psychosensual masterstroke: a kaleidoscopic portrait of self-realization and integration.
There is a dilemma that haunts the record. There is a partner on the receiving end of these confessions. The song and the album seem to wonder: what is the right thing to do when your desires are more complex than the narrow channel our culture allows? “The album is about being queer within a heteronormative relationship structure and within a heteronormative society, but it’s also just about desire and eroticism in general. I don’t think we give each other enough room to explore freely and figure out our own right paths,” she says.
The album features contributions from Sam KS (Youth Lagoon, Angel Olsen) as co-producer and drummer, Meg Duffy (Hand Habits, Perfume Genius), Waylon Rector (Dominic Fike, Charli XCX), and Greg Uhlmann (Perfume Genius, SML) on guitar, and Pat Kelly (Perfume Genius, Levi Turner) on bass.
LISTEN/WATCH:
“FIST” | “EROTICA” | “LA DA DA” | “ALASKA”
The album cover of Erotica Veronica captures Miya Folick canted on the edge of a mud pit high up in Angeles National Forest, limbs flung wide like a fever-dream fossilized midway between earth and primordial soup. It’s an apt portrait: Miya is driven by instinct, drawn to the murk and muck of growth rather than stalled by its complexity. This brazen spirit is what led her to self-produce her latest full-length record, Erotica Veronica. The record is arguably her most canonical work thus far: saturated with her catchy lyrical sensibility, astute musical craftsmanship, and her signature vaulting, acrobatic voice.
Both critically acclaimed precursors to Erotica Veronica - her debut Premonitions and sophomore LP Roach - have been lauded as coming-of-age rhapsodies. It is tempting to say the same of Erotica Veronica; after all, this new album shows us a woman running headlong into sexual exploration, often teetering on the adolescent edge of hedonism and fear. Yet, unlike the feral freedom of youth, this roving spirit is anchored by the particular wisdom and depth gained only through lived experience. Perhaps it was the witchy riddle of Premonitions joined with Roach’s excoriating honesty which prepared her for this deep dive into the sensual world.
The record was written in a lightning month and a half, on the heels of a brutal, burn-out stretch of touring. Determined to make a straight-shooting indie rock record, Miya turned to guitar to write a majority of the album. She went into the studio with the intention of capturing raw, live sound - opting for full takes rather than splicing and editing recordings together. The clarity of the sonic landscape is a fitting foil for the record’s thematic cats-cradle. Lyrically, we find conflicting moods and feelings crossing paths, as if Miya were tracing her way back to vitality through a hedge maze of herself.
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