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Snake Charmer 3:150:00/3:15
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Toxic Town 4:110:00/4:11
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Paradise 4:440:00/4:44
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Hourglass 3:460:00/3:46
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Hunter 5:290:00/5:29
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Chainbreaker 3:060:00/3:06
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Flashlight 2:410:00/2:41
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Eisblumen 3:170:00/3:17
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As a Cloud 1:430:00/1:43
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Promise of Spring 5:260:00/5:26
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Where Is God 6:410:00/6:41
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“Millard's complex sonic world is all her own. We are lucky to take part in the trip. 9/10”
— Exclaim!
Audio Samples
Demo Reel - Performance & Composition Highlights
Official Music Video
Live Performance Videos
Biography
Emily Millard is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A cross-genre artist, she draws from pop, jazz and folk traditions to create “a complex sonic world all her own” (Exclaim!).
Millard returns to her rich, languid songwriting in her fourth full-length album, Hazy Blue (Oct 2024). The long-awaited record honours the love ballad—the soft and the sad, the layered and complex. Hazy Blue is a moody folk-pop soundtrack that layers Millard’s soaring voice over lush orchestration and magnetic grooves. The result is an album of unabashed love songs—a teenage breakup, a whirlwind affair, an unworn engagement ring, love as grief, love as healing.
Recorded in July 2023 at Vancouver’s Afterlife Studios with co-producer and engineer John Raham (Frazey Ford, Dan Mangan, Destroyer), Hazy Blue features a dream line-up of Vancouver’s finest folk musicians: Leon Power (drums), James Meger (bass), Gavin Youngash (guitar), Elisa Thorn (harp), Trent Freeman (violin, viola), Molly MacKinnon (violin), JP Carter (trumpet) and Sam Davidson (clarinet). Millard and Raham adopted a collaborative approach, inviting spontaneous creativity that transformed Hazy Blue into a microverse of sonic storytelling. Millard’s prismatic voice anchors a swirling soundscape of synth drones, drum machines and acoustic instruments.
Millard’s fans add Hazy Blue to a considerable collection of albums, including three LPs and two EPs under the moniker Miss Emily Brown, as well as her last full-length record By Heron & By Season (2016) which was her first release under her birth name Emily Millard. By Heron & By Season, produced by Toronto’s Sandro Perri, earned a rare 9/10 from Exclaim! Magazine and charted on earshot's National Top 50.
In 2010, Emily released In Technicolor, a folk-pop record based on her grandmother’s wartime diary. The album was nominated for a Canadian Folk Music Award in the category “Pushing the Boundaries” and took Emily to the top five nominees for CBC Radio 3’s Bucky Award for Best New Artist. Her 2008 debut release Part of You Pours Out of Me was named one of the top twelve albums of the year by Alan Neal, host of CBC Radio’s Bandwidth.
Millard has toured extensively throughout Canada and Europe, both as a solo artist and with a rotating band of eclectic and experimental young talent. She has shared the stage with such luminaries as Jeremy Fisher, Alin Coen Band, Fred Penner, Royal Wood and Frazey Ford. She was nominated for Best Live Show by Berlin’s Kulturnews in 2017.
Alongside her solo project, Millard released numerous albums with collaborator Corwin Fox as the chamber-folk group Morlove. More recent collaborators include We Are the City, Juno nominated prog-folk band Aerialists and Juno award-winning string quartet The Fretless. Millard served as producer for Vancouver artist Amanda Sum's record, New Age Attitudes (2022) which was Juno nominated for Music Video of the Year and won the SXSW Video Jury Award for the song “Different than Before”.
Millard lives in Nelson BC where she plays in the mountains and serves on the faculty of the Contemporary Music & Technology Program at Selkirk College.
Emily gratefully lives and works on the traditional territory of the Sinixt, the Ktunaxa, and the Syilx peoples, as well as Métis and many diverse Indigenous persons.
"Millard's complex sonic world is all her own. We are lucky to take part in the trip. (9/10)"
- Exclaim!
"'Art-folk’ is certainly an apt handle for Millard’s work, as this is a greatly artistic recording, carefully crafted like the considered brushstrokes of a painting."
- Folk Radio UK