“Erotica Veronica” is the third full-length album from the Californian singer-songwriter Miya Folick. Her first entirely self-produced effort, it finds Folick delving deeper into themes of intimacy and vulnerability, on a set of songs that balance sonic restraint with a lyrical boldness. For fans of boygenius or Big Thief.
After her last album, 2023’s “Roach”. The album mined the depths of the LA-based artist’s psyche amidst a sea of synths and guitar, each song landing with the weight of a film’s climactic resolution. “Exhaustion,” after such output, was inevitable, so Folick hibernated and recharged her creative energies. But then, “at some point, the ideas just started coming,” .
The result of that ideation is “Erotica Veronica” (out February 28th via Nettwerk), Folick’s third full-length album and yet another expansive exploration of what makes her tick. On “Erotica Veronica“, her primary focus is desire and embodiment. The album, which plays out like a psychosexual epic, is sonically rich, overflowing with orchestral flourishes, spiralling song structures and lived-in acoustic textures that render Folick’s clear-eyed lyricism in vivid detail.
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