Amy Millan

The first solo album from <a href="spotify:artist:3lj7jldByrrpUgW5Je8o1p" data-name="Amy Millan">Amy Millan</a> in over 15 years, I Went To Find You emerged from the kind of once-in-a-lifetime serendipity that alters our experience of the world. After crossing paths with award-winning musician/composer <a href="spotify:artist:2CMmVX64L9gPdfcfUgclc7" data-name="Jay McCarrol">Jay McCarrol</a> in fall 2023, the Montreal-based singer/songwriter felt a sense of musical communion reminiscent of the elation she’d first accessed in singing with her father as a little girl—a connection severed when her dad was killed in a car accident just before her fifth birthday. As she began creating songs with McCarrol, Millan slowly realized that an unconscious desire to sustain that feeling had informed her lifelong devotion to music and her many cherished collaborations over the years, including her work as co-founder of beloved indie-pop band <a href="spotify:artist:2EO56JK4txid1Pss9GVbOL" data-name="Stars">Stars</a> and a satellite member of iconic collective <a href="spotify:artist:7lOJ7WXyopaxri0dbOiZkd" data-name="Broken Social Scene">Broken Social Scene</a>.

In selecting a title for her third solo effort, she chose to honor that sense of revelation and self-discovery. “A lot of this record had me looking into my past for clues on who I have become and why,” says Millan, who names longtime musician-friends like <a href="spotify:artist:6CWTBjOJK75cTE8Xv8u1kj" data-name="Feist">Feist</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:64RGS9OBGsUWkopEtO5Cz7" data-name="Kevin Drew">Kevin Drew</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3PEieAx7awxOPIdseRJuFb" data-name="Charles Spearin">Charles Spearin</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1rCIEwPp5OnXW0ornlSsRl" data-name="Metric">Metric</a>’s Emily Haines &amp; James Shaw, Stars’ Chris Seligman, and her husband and <a href="spotify:artist:2EO56JK4txid1Pss9GVbOL" data-name="Stars">Stars</a> bandmate Evan Cranley among the musical kin who’ve profoundly enriched her life. “The ‘you’ of the title is the people I found, the people I went looking for after they’d gone—and the ‘you&#39; is the person you become when all these components align.”