Colin Miller - Losin' (2025) Hi-Res

In vignettes of colorful and country-fried bedroom-folk, the Asheville multi-instrumentalist tames his small-life suffering with a rural language spoken in the pitch-black of maudlin adulthood.

Colin Miller makes the kind of music you already know the words to on a first listen. At least that’s how I felt when the weeping guitars went subterranean during “Birdhouse” and I suddenly began singing “If I stay here, I will die in silence here” along with him. The multi-instrumentalist’s new LP, Losin’, is yet another example of a Tar Heel entering Drop of Sun Studios and exiting with the best album of their career. There’s something in the water in the Carolinas; recent recordings like Fust’s Big Ugly, Merce Lemon’s Watch Me Drive Them Dogs Wild, MJ Lenderman’s Manning Fireworks, and Wild Pink’s Dulling the Horns make for a good sampler of producer/engineer/mixer Alex Farrar’s potent, near-bulletproof curriculum vitae, all of which either came to life or crossed the finish line at the Asheville studio in the last year.