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Artist
Des Miller
12+ albums
indiefolk experimental indie
about
Des Miller was born in 1981 in the valley between Mount Bob and Leonard’s Leap. He’s a modern songwriter with his heart and mind firmly in the lyrical folk tradition. He teaches political economy and lives in a balloon store. He bought that coat for a great price in Paris. He pokes his camera out of car windows and borrows other people’s Whitman. They were not his legs in that photograph. You might have heard him before. Des was in bands but they kept breaking up. He was co-writer for The New Days. He’s sat solo on stages with his acoustic guitar. He’s played with Jens Leckman; Darren Hanlon; The Devastations. That was probably Des on Triple J, or FBI, or 8RRR, or 2SER, or PBSFM. Des sounds familiar – like Martin, Byrne, Yorke, like your father’s records, like that bum in the Barri Gòtic doing It Ain’t Me, Babe. But he has a sound entirely his own. For his debut album, On the Surface of Solitude, recorded behind a curtain in the basement of the balloon store and next to the old cooktop on the rocking chair in the sunroom of a slanting bungalow above the hills hoist; Des called up old collaborators Evan Lock (brooding 70s flâneur, on electric guitars) and Christopher J. Rudge (perfectly turned out, on drums). He brought in brother Will Miller (solid as a pound cake, on bass) and fourth-cousin Robbie Moore (without fear, ..s and tambourine). Their sound is a thump and a bellow beneath Des’ soaring lines. On the Surface of Solitude was inspired by the philosophy of the Frenc
