Website: http://www.amymillan.com/

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By day, Amy Millan is a member of Canadian indie rock behemoths Stars and Broken Social Scene. By night, she is a solo artist, putting her rich, breathy voice to timeless songs about ‘skinny boys, heartbreak, whiskey, youthful confusion and the North Dakota sun.'

On her debut lp, Honey from the Tombs, Millan sang of those impossibly romantic early 20s moments –– preserved, aged, then dug up and discovered to have lost none of their original sweetness.

Most of these first solo tracks were written before 2000, then recorded over the next three years with the assistance of friends old and new (including producer Ian Blurton and the boys and girls of Crazy Strings and Broken Social Scene). And they owe as much to nights spent spinning alt country tales in Lithuanian bingo halls to her current status as indie pop star (pun intended).

Three years after Honey From The Tombs, Millan returned with Masters of the Burial, her second rich, wistful solo lp about interment. For Masters of the Burial, though, the word ‘solo' might be a bit of a misnomer: the record features contributions from a who's who of North American indie rock, including Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie), Feist, Evan Cranley (Stars) and Liam O'Neill (The Stills). ‘"Solo work" is a bit of a fib,' Millan admits. ‘Without this community, the record would be a lonely, less interesting listen.'

Masters of the Burial was written during what Millan describes as ‘a time of flux,' when she was ‘trying to get to the bottom of what "home"' really meant. The resulting sound, she says, is like ‘the dark of the night,' the ‘sound of someone climbing into bed.'