· By Seth Werkheiser
AMY MILLAN’S NEW ALBUM I WENT TO FIND YOU OUT TODAY
Amy Millan’s anticipated new solo album I Went To Find You–her first in over 15 years–arrived today via Last Gang Records. 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), the album has been earning praise and support from NPR Music, Paste, Bandcamp Daily (‘New & Notable’), Brooklyn Vegan (‘Influences’ feature), CBC Q, Popmatters, and many more. In celebration of the release, she has shared a video for album track “Kiss that summer,” directed by Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene) and featuring a collage of images of Millan throughout her life.
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Millan will also embark on a fall headline tour in support of I Went To Find You beginning this October. The run will include stops at New York City’s Mercury Lounge (10/3) and Los Angeles’ The Echo (10/28); a current itinerary is below.
I Went To Find You emerged from the kind of once-in-a-lifetime serendipity that alters our experience of the world. After crossing paths with McCarrol in fall 2023, the Montreal-based Millan felt a sense of musical communion reminiscent of the elation she’d first accessed in singing with her father as a little girl—a connection severed when her dad was killed in a car accident just before her fifth birthday. As she began creating songs with McCarrol, Millan slowly realized that an unconscious desire to sustain that feeling had informed her lifelong devotion to music and her many cherished collaborations over the years. “I so clearly remember being a kid and putting on my pajamas and being so excited for nighttime, because that’s when my dad and I would sing together,” Millan says. “Ever since then I’ve tried to make my life an arrow back to that feeling, but I didn’t fully understand that until now.”
In selecting a title for her third solo effort, she chose to honor that sense of revelation and self-discovery. “A lot of this record had me looking into my past for clues on who I have become and why,” says Millan, who names longtime musician-friends like Feist, Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin, Metric’s James Shaw, Stars’ Chris Seligman and Evan Cranley (who is also her husband) among the musical kin who’ve profoundly enriched her life. “The ‘you’ of the title is the people I found, the people I went looking for after they’d gone—and the ‘you' is the person you become when all these components align.”
Amy Millan live:
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