Mary Miller Releases "I Found Heaven"

Beginning with “lightning-strike” effects that sound almost like samples from The Terminator score, during the famous motorway chase scene, Miller throws so many different instruments into the mix which when looking at it on paper you wouldn’t think would work, including a trumpet playing the song’s main hook, choir voices reminiscent of The Omen theme from 1976 in the chorus section, a xylophone played in Verse 2, in a very similar way to the one we hear in the introduction of PJ Harvey’s “The Wind,” as well as the same type of synth we loved listening to on Depeche Mode’s hit 1997 single “It’s No Good,” having its’ only little appearance in Verse 2 of “I Found Heaven” and last, but so not least, Miller’s unexpected, soft Suzanne Vega-esque vocal performance. And guess what…the whole combination works masterfully. Miller takes things that one step further by planting a sitar in the middle 8 section, that throws us back to when Kylie used one in her infamous dark Pop track “Confide In Me,” as well as using Reggae-type percussion and slight Drum & Bass programming leading into the chorus sections.

Overall, listening to this brilliant piece of art creates a horror scene from a movie like the 1977 cult classic and critically acclaimed Suspiria, the same way that Portishead did on their 1997 Gothic, Trip-Hop single “All Mine,” with the help of Beth Gibbon’s haunting vocals. You could easily think of “I Found Heaven” as a less commercial version of Ellie Goulding’s “Under The Sheets” since Miller has similarly brought a new Electro-sound to the table, by not using the same basic, major Pop chords you would expect, as well as delivering a unique voice over an unexpectedly darker production in comparison to the norm. It is a showcase of Mary Miller as a fearless artist that we desperately want to hear more of, and if Fiona Apple ever decided to go in a more underground, Electro direction, it would most probably sound a little bit like this…eccentric, interesting, and exciting. Mary Miller…consider ROUGH ONLINE a new fan of your work.