Released in February of 2015, it incites relatable feelings of love, loss, and loneliness. With Headlights, Miller chronicled his time in New York City while attending NYU. I had the overall vision for what everything should sound like, and I really trusted Eliot and John who are incredible arrangers and really great musical minds to help me specify all those grand ideas.” What it was going to be exactly, I wasn’t sure. I knew I wanted to have strings and horns added to it. “I always wanted the record to sound a lot like my favorite seventies records, like David Bowie, and a lot of the Elton John albums from that era, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and stuff. Miller credits the ballads and sonically eclectic music of the ’70s as an influence on his songwriting. “My songs are a lot of storytelling so I like to best figure out how I can enhance my storytelling.”

Now, with everything ahead of him, Tor Miller embarks on his first US tour to promote his new record, American English, due later this month. The result? A strikingly impactful collection of songs previewing something big in the singer-songwriter’s near future. From there, he quickly set to work recording his EP, Headlights. He signed with the label at the beginning of 2014, joining its roster alongside the likes of Mumford and Sons, CHVRCHES, Phoenix, and Childish Gambino.

His ardent, crooning vocals were first captured on his iPhone in a practice room at NYU on his piano-led ballad, Hold the Phone which quickly garnered the attention of Glassnote Records. Wanting nothing more than to pursue his music fully, Miller balanced the course load of NYU’s prestigious Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music with his burgeoning music career. Embracing the world and every possibility that might lie in it, Miller fervidly delved into songwriting, honing his craft, and performing at piano bars. A high school band and a slew of shows followed his early start before the native New Yorker began college. “I wrote my first proper song when I was about ten or eleven.”Īt the encouragement of his piano teacher, Tor Miller’s first song would also be his first experience embracing music in a way that was was based less on structure, and more on creative expression and artistry.

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