AMY MILLAN RELEASES NEW SINGLE + VIDEO FOR “THE OVERPASS”
NEW SOLO LP, ‘I WENT TO FIND YOU’ OUT ON MAY 30, 2025 VIA LAST GANG RECORDS
PRE-ADD/PRE-SAVE HERE.
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED FOR THIS FALL
*JUST CONFIRMED*
MONTREAL LP RELEASE IN-STORE
JUNE 1 @ PHONOPOLIS RECORDS
@ 4PM
INCLUDES ARTIST SIGNING + PERFORMANCE
+
TORONTO LP RELEASE SHOW
JUNE 14 @ LONGBOAT HALL
Amy Millan has shared her graceful, reflective new single “The overpass,” a look back to her youth spent in Toronto, and some of the city landmarks and familiar neighbourhoods to Amy playing formidable supporting characters on her new album, I Went To Find You. This is the third and final early preview to the new album due out on May 30 via Last Gang Records. “When I was 22, my first boyfriend’s mom died. It was a shock, it happened fast. The night of her funeral, a group of us went over the Bloor viaduct in Toronto and a couple of us got on the ledge and walked across what could have been a deathly end. There was no protection from falling off and below is a hundred feet directly onto the highway. It was famous for suicides in Toronto until they finally put up protective wiring a few years ago,” she explains of the song’s thematic origins. “That night still haunts me with the thought of what an idiot I was. As weird as aging is, being in my 20s was a stupid time. Kissing all my friends to figure out which one was the one. It was all very unruly and I felt mostly lost. Turning 30 was the best thing that ever happened to me. I never believe people when they say “oh the good old days” so my sardonic sarcastic feeling on that notion finally made it into a lyric.”
The video for, “The overpass”, directed by Sara Melvin, has an equally personal backstory. “‘The overpass’ song brought me back to a sepia Toronto. My niece and the daughter of one of my closest friends, Jenny Whiteley, who was my roommate in my 20s, have the faces of that time,” Millan says. “What is a day in the life of 20-year-old friends who have everything ahead of them and an open sky of question marks? The grey hover of a Toronto that springs eternal hope. There are little Easter eggs of my past throughout the video. A little love vignette for baby Amy and the city that made her.”
WATCH + SHARE “The overpass” HERE + above.
Co-written and produced by Jay McCarrol (award-winning musician/composer known for the critically acclaimed 2023 film BlackBerry and 2025 SXSW standout Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), engineered by Jace Lasek (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolf Parade), mixed in part by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), recorded at Lost River (an idyllic studio deep in the Laurentian forest), I Went To Find You is now available for PRE-ADD/PRE-SAVE/ PRE-ORDER HERE.
Additional pre-releases singles “Wire walks” and “Make way for waves” have seen praise and support from Paste (“Wire walks” in ‘Best Songs of February’ – “a SOTY frontrunner”), KCRW (“Wire walks” – ‘Today’s Top Tune’), Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, The Needle Drop, Exclaim!, Analogue and Northern Transmissions.
CBCMusic recently highlighted I Went To Find You in their Spring Music preview, and noted, “On the lush ‘make way for waves’ and the gentle waltz of ‘wire walks’, Millan thoughtfully reflects on the passage of time and the self-revelations that come with that. There’s beauty and wisdom woven throughout, even if the answers revealed aren’t always the ones you expected.”
LISTEN TO + WATCH “Wire walks” HERE.
LISTEN TO + WATCH “Make way for waves” HERE.
Millan has confirmed a fall headline tour in support of I Went To Find You beginning this October. The tour will include stops in Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver, as well as New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Seattle, Los Angeles and more. The full tour itinerary follows below. An album release show in Toronto at Longboat Hall is happening June 14. Get tickets for Toronto HERE. And, a just confirmed album release in-store in Montreal is locked for June 1 at Phonopolis Records @ 4pm, which will include a short acoustic performance and signing.
Fall tour tickets and more info is available HERE.
AMY MILLAN – I WENT TO FIND YOU
NORTH AMERICAN TOUR – 2025
06/14 – Toronto, ON – Longboat Hall
10/2 – Boston, MA – Middle East
10/3 – New York, NY – Mercury Lounge
10/4 – Washington, DC – Pearl Street
10/5 – Philadelphia, PA – Milkboy
10/15 – Montreal, QC – Sala Rossa
10/17 – Ottawa, ON – St John’s Baptist Church
10/19 – Lake County, BC – Creekside Theatre
10/20 – Vancouver, BC – Fox Theatre
10/23 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
10/24 – Portland, OR – Mission Theater
10/26 – San Francisco, CA – Cafe du Nord
10/28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
I WENT TO FIND YOU – Track List
1. Untethered
2. Wire walks
3. Borderline
4. Kiss that summer
5. Make way for waves
6. The overpass
7. Don valley
8. Murmurations
9. lost river diamonds