Louie Miles - Wander (EP) Review
Photography-Callum Thompson (@callumthompson1) November, 2021 saw Louie Miles stepping into an alien yet somehow cozily familiar territory. His third single Show the World sees his transmission into a landscape of warm, hazy psychedelia, warped in rippling guitar and rich keyboard melodies, with dry and roomy, Plastic Ono Band -esque vocals atop a nostalgia-inducing swell of noise. As dreamlike and angular as last year’s showcasing singles City Living and Another Blue proved to be, the directional change in the tracks leading up to the release of the exceptional debut EP Wander demonstrate Miles’s plunge into heavy effect exploration and structure playability, albeit pop-songwriting alchemy. Sonically and experimentally, Miles’s expansion of sounds and ideas are continually fresh and exploratory, both instrumentally and on said production level. Following from Change the World , second single This Rain is Just a Passing Note from the Wander EP once again breaks the mold of his past