P?neke-based singer/songwriter Miles Calder makes an electric return with new single ‘Take Me Back To How It Was‘. Miles taps into the psychedelic era delivering an atmospheric single with sweeping guitar lines, watery Rhodes, and hypnotic, reverb-soaked vocals. Written during a time of feeling lost and isolated while in Geneva, Switzerland, ‘Take Me Back To How It Was’ channels the unknown and “feeling uncertain for the future and wanting to go back through distance and time to the sanctuary of a previous home.”
The accompanying video, co-directed by Miles and drummer/photographer Nick George and filmed by Finn O’Connor (Couch Kumura) at a nearby school hall, the video captures Miles and his band performing ‘Take Me Back To How It Was’, evoking early-70’s live TV performances (think The Beatles or Steely Dan on Midnight Special). Filmmaker Arty Papageorgiou (Avantdale Bowling Club, Lontalius, Church & AP) sent the video further back in time by running the footage through a VHS machine. The result is a bewitching display of Miles’ disoriented new sound in what seems like a glowing, psychedelic alternate reality.
Miles Calder has been busy waking up from unconscious monotony and has a striking new single to show for it. Almost four years since the folk-tinged releases as Miles Calder & The Rumours and his time living in New York City and Geneva, Miles has emerged with a revived sound and a new band. His new sound evokes early-70’s Lennon as much as contemporaries like Kevin Morby and Father John Misty.
Newly acquainted with writing and playing on both piano and electric guitar, the previously acoustic-guitar bound songwriter has found new avenues of expression, and as Miles puts it, “effective raw ideas that come from riding the edge of your comfort zone”.
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