How Clara Miller finds movement and meaning

thefader.com:

When we speak to singer-songwriter Clara Miller, she’d just finished teaching a dance class. “Baby ballet,” she says. As a former dancer with the New York City ballet, so much of Miller’s music has been heavily informed by her relationship with movement.

With songs like “Silver Spring” and “Say Yes,” that bloom amid acoustic strings, soft percussion and airy flutes, her sound leans firmly into soft indie and folk.

Ideal musical backdrops for complex choreography, its mellowness buoying deeply vulnerable lyrics. But since releasing her debut album Ghostlighter in 2023, she already has her eyes set on a slightly new direction.“I feel like I’ve written a lot of like what I would call just like kind of like mellow-ish beautiful music that was kind of like simple and structure, but this year was kind of a turning point and I felt like I really needed to like just write more rock music,” she explained. “I really wanted to scream, so I did some of that and it felt really good to be able to describe my sound as more indie rock.

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