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# Amy Millan - "Wire Walks"
- URL: https://www.analogue.io/recommendations/amy-millan-wire-walks/
- Published: 2025-02-12T20:29:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-12T20:29:48.000Z
- Description: The firstfruits of Millan's first solo album in 15 years is sonic bliss.
- Author: Analogue
- Tags: Recommendations, Amy Millan, #Import 2026-11-12 21:02, #color-orange, #blend-soft-light

**Album:** Amy Millan - "Wire Walks" · **Artist:** Amy Millan · **Released:** 12 February 2025 · **Label:** Last Gang Records

A decade-and-a-half has passed since [Amy Millan](http://amymillan.ffm.to/iwtfy?ref=analogue.io) released a solo record. We're not sure the impetus to piece together another set of songs under her own name away from the likes of Stars or Broken Social Scene, but the beauty of "Wire Walks" is captivating proof that *something* here deserved to be heard.

The bare bones of "Wire Walks" would have worked in a number of melodic settings, but it's the thoughtful flourishes here that really set it apart as an inviting lead single. The unexpected ukelele (Jay McCarroll) and the thoughtful trombone (Evan Cranley) create intriguing layers around Millan's vulnerable prose exploring the ways in which we live with our "stubborn wounds" and the hopeful longing that we might be okay despite them.

Check out the lyrics to "Wire Walks" below:

*How you hold on to bad news* 
*I want to carry the sad out of you* 
*You said that night when the day lost the light*

*If I’m walking on a wire* 
*Slightly bent without an anchor* 
*Could I come down without a fall* 
*Catching clues of what I’m here for*

*Wound around that stubborn wound* 
*Great lakes have tantrums too* 
*I lied when I said that time would catch your head*

*When I’m walking on a wire* 
*Slightly bent without an anchor* 
*Could I come down without a fall* 
*Catching clues of what I’m here for*

*Around and round that stubborn wound* 
*The future can be the past too* 
*You might need to lean* 
*Into what you’ve always been*

*When I’m walking on a wire* 
*Slightly bent without an anchor* 
*Could I come down without a fall* 
*Catching clues of what I’m here for* 
*When I hover over fires* 
*With embers of misunderstandings* 
*Can I come through without the burns* 
*Catching cues of where I’m landing*

Millan's new album, *I Went to Find You*, will be out on May 30, 2025, on Last Gang Records.  
[***Pre-order Amy Millan's new album here.***](http://amymillan.ffm.to/iwtfy?ref=analogue.io)