Review: Nicole Miglis in Los Angeles
EARLIER THIS SUMMER Nicole Miglis announced her debut solo record Myopia with nine songs and a second new single, “Autograph”. Just a few short weeks later she performed the record in its entirety to a cozy record shop audience in Cypress Park, LA.
This record came as a surprise for fans of Hundred Waters, a band originally from Gainesville, FL, where Miglis made her studio debut both writing and singing for the project. Their last album and record, Communicating, released in 2017.While it’s not entirely clear what’s next for Hundred Waters, it became clear that Nicole Miglis has an appetite to perform on her own when two years ago she opened for Bonobo on their Fragments tour.
After a couple years of being on the road and exploring different sounds under her Batry Powr pseudonym, Nicole Miglis arrived at a small collection of songs that she’d finally release under her own name. The very setlist for the album release show was also simply the tracklist for the record. I couldn’t remember a time where I attended a show where I’d hear each song on an album in the exact same order, but the simple idea does add a personal experience to the album, knowing each time you play it, you might remember the small details you normally forget after attending a show. Details like the temperature of the room or the people near you who you never spoke to, but their memory and silhouettes are now etched within the tracklist for the record.
