MILES CALDER Shares New Single + Video ‘Go Slow’

Today, songwriter Miles Calder shares new single ‘Go Slow’ and accompanying music video.

As the latest single from his forthcoming Keeping Up EP, ‘Go Slow’ continues Miles’ collaboration with producer Samuel Flynn Scott (The Phoenix Foundation) and Tui-award winning engineer Lee Prebble (The Phoenix Foundation, L.A.B, The Black Seeds), recording and mixing the song at his studio The Surgery.

A cinematic and sparse meditation on taking time and choosing your pace of life, ‘Go Slow’ shifts between distinct movements: The murky opening guitar hook and spacious verses give way to soaring choruses and floating jam sections. The richly layered arrangement showcases long-time bandmates Nick George (drums), Steve Moodie (bass), Chris Armour (guitar) and Dayle Jellyman (keys) as well as layered backing vocals from Deanne Krieg aka WHIM (Congress of Animals, Dawn Diver, Ida Lune).  

The otherworldly music video plunges us into a surreal ocean, with Miles playing in slow-mo waves and blown out colours. Making the video himself, Miles “simply cobbled together some footage from holiday and played with the edit and colour until it felt it fit the different vibey parts of the song”. It transports the viewer and sinks us into the trippy underwater calm. 

Miles Calder released his solo debut album Autopilot Life in 2021, a self-reflective delve into waking up from an unexamined life, dressed in a psychedelic folk-rock palette that evoked late-era Beatles as much as contemporaries like Kevin Morby and Father John Misty. The album won over new fans and critics alike & led to a nomination for a prestigious Aotearoa Music Award (Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa | Best Folk Artist 2022).