Premiere: Mia Day Shares New Single 'Mountain Song'
New album Hellier, Forever Deadline May 17
April 18, 2024
Seattle-based indie rock singer/songwriter Mia Day debuted her 2018 full-length effort Gold, which initially found her evoking strains of plaintive Americana. However, instead of staying in that lane, the next few years were years of transition. During this time she attended college and toured the festival circuit before spending a year of personal turmoil during which she wrote her forthcoming second album, Hellier, Forever.
“For months I didn't know what to do with myself, so I wrote songs every day,” Day explains. “It's also my scream-into-the-void album. I say, “I will not disappear and I will not let a single man destroy me.”
She returned last month with the album's lead single, “Severed,” which found Day reminiscent of '90s grunge and alt rock, and today she returns with another new track, “Mountain Song,” which debuts with Under the Radar.
Where Day's previous track burst out of the gates with distorted guitars and big melodies, “Mountain Song” offers a more restrained slow-burn, landing closer to the sunny folk of her previous record. However, running alongside Day's heartfelt vocal performance and pastoral acoustic strums is a darker undercurrent, colored by twisted and tangled guitar tones. The track finds Day ripping through that shadowy tonal fog one moment, only to settle into a warm soaring the next. Throughout her lyrics search through feelings of pain and longing, pining for a lover who is no longer there: “It'll be a while before I hear a song without thinking of you / Why I still want / How to forget everything I felt with you ; / I do not want.”
Check out the song early below and pre-save here. Hellier, Forever released on May 17th.
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