Velveteen

Us-based New Zealand native Miriam Clancy comes to Wolf in a Suit with the hypnotizing sonic creation that is "Velveteen". With this fantastic track, the uber-talented singer/songwriter gives life to a world bound to get you hooked and pull you in. Her voice embraces the feelings and emotions that are part of this soundscape and she manages to make it all feel ours from start to end. Plus, there's something about this song that just knows how to light a fire inside all who listen from the moment you press play.

"Velveteen" offers us a soundscape so honest and so raw that you can't help but be mesmerized by it as you need and crave more and more of what it has to offer. So listen closely and let go of all you know to fall prey for the fire and the magic of this must-listen gem. Enjoy!

"This song is like standing starkers in front of everyone you know - and some you don't - and would rather impress than clear the dance floor. I'm feeling all that but doing it anyway. I wrote this song crying into the keys of an old jazz-bar piano in our apartment in Queens, faraway from Aotearoa/New Zealand as I began a reckoning with my childhood abuse, neglect and mis-handling by the local authorities.

All while attempting to throw water on the wildfire of justified anger burning in me. It is a tightrope walk, leaning on a mystery shoulder of faith just to tame that hunt for vengeance and to try to find a way through the valley. I had on loop the refrain 'I'm living in splendor, I'm living in velveteen' ...hoping to believe it, fake it til I make it.

I wrote this into ‘Velveteen' and my own manifesto that I may have been let down and abandoned but I won't do that, I will break the chain. I might be a human torch blazing an endless raging flame but I will break the chain.”

Miriam Clancy

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