By Lucy McCabe<\/p>\n
When I walk in, Brighton Music Hall is lit like a cave. Its features are outlined with the welcoming glow of cool colored stage lights. The rotating soft blues, purples, reds, and pinks go on to swim through each song effortlessly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Miya Folick was born and raised in California. She lives and records in Los Angeles, CA. Like every industrious young musician today, she formed her first band via Tinder. This was back in 2013, and since then she has never stopped being active as a musician.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Her recent collaborations include a feature on American Football\u2019s cover of Fade into You, released in 2022. At 34, Folick contains multitudes and certain wisdoms her younger industry colleagues have yet to grasp. She wields her strengths with a self-possessed duality, ranging across genres and decades.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The tungsten-yellow hues color Miya\u2019s white t-shirt as soon as she comes onto the stage. Throughout the night I was able to witness how she bounced between the different facets of her artistry. The first three songs played, \u201cNothing to See\u201d, \u201cBad Thing\u201d, and \u201cCockroach\u201d come straight from her latest album, <\/span>Roach<\/span><\/i>. The cutting lyrics sought, pleadingly, to understand her shortcomings in love. This anguish builds to the latter half of \u201cCockroach\u201d- Crush me \/ Crush me \u2013 sung tenderly to a soft backdrop of drums.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Spanning the entire set list, roughly half of her time on stage was dedicated to <\/span>Roach. <\/span><\/i>This other half included an even fresher release, \u201cWhat We Wanna\u201d (out just two days prior). Miya described it as a \u201cbratty\u201d song she just wrote for an original Apple TV series, <\/span>The Buccaneers<\/span><\/i>. She even let the audience in on the process of polishing the song, with a lyric change from \u201chot and wet\u201d to \u201chot as it gets\u201d, per the request of the series\u2019 creative team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Towards the end of her set<\/span>, Get Out of My House<\/span><\/i> floods the speakers. The hall becomes a dynamic exchange of energy between performers and patrons, the currency consisting of breathy lyrics and expressions of pure admiration. It\u2019s something every concert goer hopes to feel, to be able to think to themselves, <\/span>god<\/span><\/i> that was a good show, <\/span><\/i>right before they exit the venue\u2019s double doors onto a gum speckled sidewalk.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I watched the excited chatter between the fans shuffling out after Miya\u2019s last song, a cover of Joni Mitchell\u2019s <\/span>River.<\/span><\/i> Maia, the band\u2019s bassist, and drummer, Elias, left and came to the side of the stage where I was, filming her with their smartphones. The venue fell into an expectant silence, and Miya began.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0She held the high notes with a hushed precision, this song gave her an opportunity to display her full range of talents. I held the image of a lone skater gliding down a winding, frozen river with a sky the same color of the <\/span>Blue<\/span><\/i> album itself. Silence, then the trance is broken. It\u2019s back to cheering, clapping and maybe even some tear wiping.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Lucy McCabe When I walk in, Brighton Music Hall is lit like a cave. Its features are outlined with the welcoming glow of cool colored stage lights. The rotating soft blues, purples, reds, and pinks go on to swim through each song effortlessly.\u00a0 \u00a0 Miya Folick was born and raised in California. 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