Stars‘ Amy Millan will release a new solo album I Went to Find You, on May 30 via Last Gang. It’s her first since 2009’s Masters of the Burial, and was produced by Jay McCarrol, engineered by The Besnard Lakes’ Jace Lasek, and mixed in part by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol).
“A lot of this record had me looking into my past for clues on who I have become and why,” says Millan. “The ‘you’ of the title is the people I found, the people I went looking for after they’d gone—and the ‘you’ is the person you become when all these components align.”
The first single from the album is the sumptuous “Wire Walks,” which hat tips to a classic Stars single. “Getting older is a trip. You assume you’re gonna grow out of feeling like you might fall down a hole any minute, but for me the feeling continues to hover,” Millan says. “I reference Stars’ ‘Ageless Beauty’ here with the lyric ‘I lied when I said that time would catch your head.’ I thought when I was younger time would mend all wounds, but I was wrong, it does not. Turns out they stick around! So what I have learned with my sage years is to stop trying to dodge and outrun the hard feelings. Embrace the difficult bits, the footprint that made me what I am. When outrunning isn’t working, I might need to lean into what I’ve always been.”
Watch the video below.
I Went To Find You:
1. Untethered
2. Wire walks
3. Borderline
4. Kiss that summer
5. Make way for waves
6. The overpass
7. Don valley
8. Murmurations
9. lost river diamonds