Mila Webb - Lucky Nights (2022) Hi-Res

The unearthly folk of singer-songwriter Mila Webb blends empyrean lap steel and gossamer melodies to draw the out of body experience of a deeply inner life. Her debut EP, Lucky Nights.

Webb describes herself as “a bit of a late bloomer,” with a wink. The sixth child of singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb (“Wichita Lineman”, “MacArthur Park”), and the younger of five older siblings collaborating under the moniker The Webb Brothers, Webb bristled at the notion of leaving her own permanent record. In an embrace of anonymous fulfillment, she landed residence in a 70-person co-op in Berkeley, CA - a backdrop of fleeting privacy that led her to seek singularity in song. This is the kind of cosmic joke that informs her music’s psychedelic idealism. A move back home to Los Angeles, and tentative steps out of hermeticism, produced the demos that became Lucky Nights. Best detailed by her aptly named “Masterpiece,” Webb teases her interchangeable preference to “Waste my time / Take my time,” marveling at the indiscriminate difference between living in a moment and letting it pass you by.

The titular song is a love letter to darkness- “like the midnight sky would be, a long long time ago” Webb sings, an ethereal ode to the accident of happiness, inking vividly the memory of a dream in the stark brushstrokes of the woefully awake.