This buildup throughout the song is repeated several times within the album with songs like Carter and Cash, Chelsea, and Always. From the chorus on the song then possess a bit of everything from a string orchestra to rhythmic drums. From there the track is slowed down to just Miller and his piano only to be gradually built up again. Starting off with an electric hit on the piano that is layered with an echoing “Baby I surrender”.
The album is kicked off with Surrender and from the very first note you are pulled into the infectious song. It is overflowing with powerful piano ballads and heartfelt lyrics all to be tied together by Miller’s mesmerizing voice. His debut album American English is refreshing and tasteful, it offers a new sound that is simply too hard to ignore. With all of that being said Tor Miller is not one of those artists you just pass over.
It takes a lot to stand out in the music industry especially in the fast-paced electronic world we live in you have to provide something memorable or else you will be a song that someone hears on a playlist and never thinks about again.
There are hundreds of thousands of playlists filled to the top with artists just waiting to be discovered. The most thrilling thing about Tor Miller with the advantage of time is that he might well have found it.We are living in the age of streaming where services like Spotify provides us with all the music that we could want at any time and anywhere. There s a key moment in prior single Midnight when, with the backing vocals rising to a tumult behind him, Tor sings Calling out, calling out for something true. His music has soul, and his performance has a range, depth and scale. The ongoing glut of actually very good singer-songwriters will never become a fallow stable, but Tor has leap-frogged that pen and positioned himself comfortably on the outside, looking above and beyond its obvious limitations.
It s a song I m hugely proud of.Īmbitious, then, but not misplaced. I can hear it on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury as the weekend closes. I wanted it to sound like Bruce Springsteen covering Purple Rain (which he recently did, weirdly enough). I wanted Stampede to end on a what the hell happened there?! moment. Like many great albums do, the album closes on a beauty, and Tor s current favourite called Stampede.
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