Miya Folick

Miya Folick, a Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter, embraced music in her young adult years for its capacity to fuse emotional resonance with intellectual substance. Her first EP, Strange Darling, appeared in 2015 and paired contemplative lyrics with intense indie rock, while the full-length Premonitions followed in 2018. A more personal collection titled 2007 arrived in 2022 and established the atmosphere for her 2023 album Roach.

Born in Santa Ana, California, Folick enrolled in acting courses at New York University in the late 2000s, then withdrew and returned to California. There she acquired guitar skills and completed a theater B.A. at the University of Southern California. She began seeking local performance chances by posting a dating-app profile that declared her intent to form a band, an approach that connected her with a bassist who recruited the remaining members of her first group.

Mark Rains, whose credits include Alice Bag and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, recorded the self-produced Strange Darling at Station House Studio in Echo Park, and the EP surfaced in 2015. Terrible Records issued her subsequent EP Give It to Me in 2017, which contained a version of Joni Mitchell’s “Woodstock.” Prompted by an article on abusive power structures, the assertive single “Deadbody” surfaced in March 2018 ahead of Premonitions, her debut long-player, which appeared later that year. She promoted the album through opening slots on tours with Pale Waves and Sunflower Bean.

Folick entered the Nettwerk roster in September 2022 with the reflective and exposed 2007 EP. The release coincided with headline and support dates across the U.K. and Ireland, Europe, and North America, including segments alongside Band of Horses, Bishop Briggs, and Tove Lo. For her second album Roach, released in June 2023, she enlisted producers Gabe Wax and Max Hershenow to shape direct, uncluttered arrangements, with the single “Bad Thing” leading the way.