“We drive and we drive and we drive, but we can’t get out… can’t get out of here,” he sings in the title track, struggling with the fact that his past is now his present.įrom boredom to drugs, to friends have babies at young ages and his own commitment issues, Tor Miller doesn’t hold back. Miller’s new songs find him coming to terms with the reality of his situation: Being back in a familiar, relatively static, unchanging and at times, oppressive environment he thought he’d left behind for good. 2016 was a whirlwind year for him, but eventually the storm calmed at some point in 2017, he was finished touring and found himself moving back in with his parents, uncertain of his future and feeling like he had taken one step forward, but several steps back. Tor Miller’s second album finds him returning to his roots, literally. “I’d like to also thank the director Jesse Bronstein for helping me create this and put up with my tireless notes.“ The album brings Miller’s rock singer/songwriterdom to new heights as he dives deeper than ever before, pushing himself lyrically, melodically, and vocally as he strips down to a bare, vulnerable core.Ītwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “My Life Surviving the Suburbs,” Tor Miller’s personal story of survival and redemption, in his own words. “I wanted to visually show people the places I was talking about in these songs and further discuss the circumstances that led me to making Surviving the Suburbs,” the artist tells Atwood Magazine.

Two years later, Tor Miller has returned energized and empowered on his sophomore effort Surviving the Suburbs, a classic rock record for the modern age.

Signed to Glassnote Records shortly after graduating from NYU, the New York born and bred singer/songwriter burst out of the gates in 2016 with his debut album American English, garnering considerable buzz and racking up millions of online streams for songs like “Carter & Cash,” “Always,” and “Baby Blue.” Surviving the Suburbs – Tor Miller “Everything was going according to plan: I signed a record deal and dropped out of college, I got to make an album, tour the world, have countless and unforgettable experiences… And as corny as it sounds, I was truly living my dream – but it didn’t last,” shares Tor Miller in his auto-biographical mini-documentary. Tor Miller shares the story of his energizing and empowered sophomore album in his mini-doc “My Life Surviving the Suburbs.”

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