Aly & AJ, Miya Folick

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Stephen Ringer

Aly & AJ

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media release: Aly & AJ brought their lush, introspective new single “With Love From” to NBC’s TODAY show with a commandingly earnest performance. They also told hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush about their massive upcoming 2023 “With Love From Tour.” The track is the first taste of their forthcoming haunting album of the same name that will arrive Spring 2023.

In conjunction with the TODAY performance, Aly & AJ dropped the accompanying music video for “With Love From” (directed by Stephen Ringer), delivering gritty, on-the-road visuals from their vigorous 2022 tour, (over 80+ live shows since this past April) that matches the introspective and gorgeously moody direction of the new track. “With Love From” was praised by Rolling Stone who described it as “a folky postcard about growing pains” and by Variety who said it will “usher in a new era of artistry for the sisters”

Aly & AJ’s “With Love From Tour” kicks off March 30th going through late April, and then will pick up again in September, with stops at historic venues like LA’s Greek Theatre, NYC’s Hammerstein Ballroom, and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. Full dates below. 

Next year’s musical era and tour follows a monumental year for Aly & AJ, including their massive Austin City Limits debut, performances at Madison Square Garden & Hollywood Bowl, appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! & Good Morning America, festival slots at Governors Ball, BottleRock & Sea Hear Now, and the deluxe edition release of their acclaimed last album ‘a touch of the beat gets you up on your feet gets you out and then into the sun’.

If their last album was a joyful sunbathed celebration, ‘With Love From’ is set to be a haunting collection of introspection and personal recollections. Like a lost diary that has been found, the forthcoming record is rife with organic observations on life’s nuances and the meaning behind what makes us who we are. Fitting with the project’s lyrical content, the record itself has a rawness brought to life by recording sessions at the legendary Sunset Sound studios with a live band and very little post-programming.

Vocalist, songwriter and producer Miya Folick confirms her new album, Roach, is slated for release on May 26 via Nettwerk. A new single, “Get Out Of My House,” is out now.

“‘Get Out of My House’ was one of the first songs I wrote for my second album,” Folick says. “It’s about a person, but it’s also about a certain bad habit and a certain bad feeling. ‘Get them all out of the house,’ is what I’m saying. It is absolutely an exorcism.”

Additionally, Folick will open for Aly & AJ on their North American spring tour.

Roach is Folick’s clearest and most direct work yet, eschewing some of the lyrical and musical obfuscations she layered onto her 2018 debut album, Premonitions. With earworm melodies, heart-wrenching poetry, eclectic production and anchored by Folick’s once-in-a-lifetime voice, Roach straddles a line between pop and something more experimental. She enlisted a team of collaborators who she trusted to bring out the grittier side of her artistry, including Gabe Wax (War on Drugs, Fleet Foxes), Mike Malchicoff (King Princess, Bo Burnham), Max Hershenow (MS MR) and a team of some of LA’s best players. The result is an album that sounds as honest and intimate as the subject matter at hand, a candid snapshot of where she is now and what it took to get there.

Roach picks up where 2007, Folick’s critically acclaimed EP from last year, left off, completing the story of one woman’s imperfect life, all the highs and lows included. A document of an adult in progress, Roach chronicles Folick’s struggle to grow up and move through major life changes, reckoning with what it means to leave her youth behind and wearing the hardship endured like a badge of honor. “It’s an album about trying to get to the core of what life really is,” she explains. “I think over the course of writing this record, I actually did the work and got closer to the person that I really want to be, even if that path isn’t linear and I still have moments where I disappoint myself, where I’m angry with myself.”

Folick’s EP from last year, 2007, was released to critical acclaim from Pitchfork, NPR, Our Culture, Alt Press and more and features singles, “Bad Thing,” co-written by Folick, Mitski and Andrew Wells, “Nothing To See,” “Ordinary” and “Oh God,” her first new music in three years. After the release, Folick embarked on a headlining North American and UK/EU tour, with stops in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Dublin and more, followed by an extensive tour across the UK/EU with Tove Lo in October and November. Folick has also scored a new film to be released later this year. Cora Bora, directed by Hannah Utt and the first feature to star Meg Stalter (“Hacks”), features score and original music by Folick.

Raised in Santa Ana, California, and now living in Los Angeles, Folick first attracted acclaim with two EPs, 2015’s Strange Darling and 2017’s Give It To Me EP. Folick’s 2018 Terrible Records/Interscope debut album Premonitions drew critical praise from NPR, GQ, Pitchfork, The FADER and many more; landed her a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR and saw her sell out headline shows and play festivals the world over.