SONG PREMIERE: Miles Hewitt Strums Up Fantastical Imagery On Folk Diamond “Moongreening”

Photo by Rita Lovine

A persistent & zooming baroque-folk fearlessness punctuates Miles Hewitt’s debut single “Moongreening” which sounds as if the singer-songwriter spent weeks recording in the UK on a coastal sojourn. However, if the tracks sound somewhat familiar, tap it up to the mix of session players that include members of the bands of Devendra Banhart, Kevin Morby, and Aldous Harding.

After years of leading Boston art-rock collective The Solars, whose 2017 EP Retitled Remastered landed on DigBoston’s Best Massachusetts Albums of 2017, Hewitt returned to Harvard College to finish his award-winning collection of poems The Candle is Forever Learning to Sing. Following his graduation in 2018, Hewitt made for the sylvan Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, settling in a small hilltown just down the road from a friend’s recording studio and a few miles from where he’d spent his first year of life.

It was there, amidst the cycling greens, browns, and blues, that the songs that would become Hewitt’s debut solo album, Heartfall, (out 8/26) emerged. Drawing on British and American folk music, ‘70s songwriter rock, psychedelia, krautrock, and electronic music, this album is geared to be a sleeper for year-end best-of lists.

Glide is premiering this pastoral and brooding folk diamond “Moongreening” that purs with lush imagery and a strummy stream of consciousness. Hewitt hits on an impressionable sonic level here where the musical worlds of Midlake, Ryley Walker and Laura Marling mingle.

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