We all can use a little push to get us to the finish line, whether that’s meeting a deadline, getting through the workweek, or prepping a new album. For Maggie Miles, the Virginia-raised, Nashville-based alt-pop artist and multi-instrumentalist is riding shotgun alongside her new single “Asleep,” a celestial sonic escapade of a track that leads directly to the introduction of sophomore album. The Lack Thereof is due out May 17 via Warehouse West Entertainment/BMG Rights Management.
Coincidentally enough, “Asleep,” a soulful cocktail of empower-pop that swirls tightly around themes of the shifting nature of self and the desire to be born afresh and anew, stands as both the last single before the springtime album release, and also its closing number on the 10-song tracklist.
“I knew ‘Asleep’ was to be the final track on the album as soon as I wrote it,” says Miles. “The album chronicles my journey to finding myself again, and it was too hopeful to be at the beginning. This song was the finish line. We captured waves via iPhone voice memos, and used a room mic to captured me sitting at an old out of tune upright piano inside of a weathered home older than I, nestled in the blue ridge mountains I called home in Virginia.”
Miles adds: “The song is about asking yourself if you believe something because it convicts you and you know it inside of you to be true, or are you believing it, because you’ve been told to.”
Take it with you as you move forward to a destination of your choosing.