One For The Weekend: Amy Millan

Watch the animated clip for Amy Millan's "Make Way For Waves" off her new album I Went To Find You out May 30.

Here's the scoop on Amy Millan's new album... 

The first solo album from Amy Millan in over 15 years, I Went To Find You emerged from the kind of once-in-a-lifetime serendipity that alters our experience of the world. 

After crossing paths with award-winning musician/composer Jay McCarrol in fall 2023, the Montreal-based singer/songwriter felt a sense of musical communion reminiscent of the elation she’d first accessed in singing with her father as a little girl—a connection severed when her dad was killed in a car accident just before her fifth birthday. As she began creating songs with McCarrol, Millan slowly realized that an unconscious desire to sustain that feeling had informed her lifelong devotion to music and her many cherished collaborations over the years, including her work in beloved indie-pop band Stars and a satellite member of iconic collective Broken Social Scene. 

 “I so clearly remember being a kid and putting on my pajamas and being so excited for nighttime, because that’s when my dad and I would sing together,” Millan says. “Ever since then I’ve tried to make my life an arrow back to that feeling, but I didn’t fully understand that until now.” 

 In selecting a title for her third solo effort, she chose to honour that sense of revelation and self-discovery. “A lot of this record had me looking into my past for clues on who I have become and why,” says Millan, who names longtime musician-friends like Feist, Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin, Metric’s James Shaw, Stars’ Chris Seligman, and her husband and Stars bandmate Evan Cranley among the musical kin who’ve profoundly enriched her life. “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.”

Amy Millan's much-anticipated new album "I Went To Find You" is being released on May 30th via Last Gang Records. You can pre-order a copy on hot pink vinyl right here. She'll be launching the album in Toronto with a show at Longboat Hall on June 14th at 8 pm. Get tickets via dice.fm right here. Watch Gaia Alari's animated clip for "Make Way For Waves" following Amy's preview below.