New EP from Lan Miao

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lan Miao – pronounced ‘lawn meow’ – is a singer-songwriter who’s musical journey started when she was just seven years old and began to learn Western classical music and theory. Growing up in Taiwan, Lan Miao was exposed to Mandarin Pop music when she began composing her own original material.

Later, during the 90s her family would relocate back to the USA, settling in Los Angeles. It was at this point in her life that Lan Miao would discover the world of alternative rock radio, expanding her creative vision and offering her new inspiration for musical ideas and lyricism.

When her parents separated, the then sixteen year old Lan Miao was overcome with grief and depression, turning to songwriting as an outlet to rationalise her feelings in sonic form and use composing music as a cathartic and therapeutic exercise. From this period, her musical outlook was instilled with a deep sense of emotion and intimate vulnerability which translates to her authentic storytelling in her music today.

Now, twenty years in the making, she shares her debut EP titled The Keep. Featuring six new original songs that explore themes of familial fallout, her first EP showcases her own original take on the alternative music sound. Blending piano-led writing with rock and tinges of classical into her sound, her EP lays down her restrained, often ambient style that’s full of personal lyricism and delicate melodic leads.

First composed during her late-teen years and early 20s, the songs on The Keep explore the artist’s relationship with both of her parents with notes of sadness, anger and a fear of disloyalty and abandonment shining through her elegant writing. Recorded at home studios in Berkley and Campbell throughout the pandemic, Lan Miao’s EP spins an immersive sonic journey on a worthy debut effort.

Listen to The Keep below