Welcome to Ear 2 Da Sky! Each week, I will be going over topics within music culture and reviewing albums and EPs across genres, eras and artists that are submitted by readers like you, and listeners of my radio show every Monday at 11 p.m. on WHUS 91.7 FM! For this week’s submission, I’ll be listening to MiLES.’s EP “Life Thru New Lens.”
MiLES. is a name that you may not have heard of, but I believe it is a name that everyone will soon become familiar with. The East Atlanta based artist is not producing a sound you would normally expect coming from a place the likes of Future, Young Nudy and Gucci Mane, just to name a few. A little over a year ago, the Stanford University student released his first of three EPs of 2024 titled “Life Thru New Lens.” Coming in at just under 18 minutes, this five-track project is short but sweet, packed full of quality production and vocals from the undergraduate student.
The EP’s title could allude to a few things, whether it’s a new understanding for music, college life as an artist or an altered view on life after a romantic involvement. Track one, “Running in A Circle,” follows a common theme you’ll find in his music: yearning, begging and pleading.
He spends his time trying to convince someone who has nowhere as much interest in him as he does to them, that he is worth their time, and they shouldn’t be playing with his time. Like the title suggests, he feels as though he is in an endless cycle, leaving the song with a simple request to this love interest: “Want you to give me all your love.”
Track three, “Baby Blue,” was one of the more popular songs off the EP. It picks up the pace, thanks to some busy drums. One thing I’ve noticed after tracking his career and past works is that he really favors his falsetto delivery. He would drop a taste of his falsetto every now and then in his early tracks.
But in more recent years, it seems as though he has fully found confidence in it. Following MiLES. fashion, it is packed with romantic desire on this track, pleading that he “wants to be yours” on the hook, audibly on his hands and knees. He exclaims that this love interest possesses the key to a proverbial open door.
Bouncing from home to campus life, traveling from state to state, performing on stage and trying to maintain a respectable GPA, life has been everything but normal for the incredibly talented MiLES. Taking a dive into his past projects will show you nothing but growth and experimentation: a young artist who truly enjoys what they do. He is one of the artists that I have followed closely once I found him, since he is a profoundly interesting artist, consistently producing talent filled tracks. MiLES. has nothing but time on his hands and I’m confident he knows what to do with it.
Rating: 4/5
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