With vocals hailed as “the definition of rock n’ roll” by former tourmate George Clinton, ‘Strut’ is the first single from Miss Velvet’s fearlessly ambitious Triptych audio-visual EP. Complete with grand choral/operatic interludes and a companion cinematic film by Gus Black (Greta Van Fleet, Deftones), Triptych announces Miss Velvet’s stunning evolution since her 2023 debut album, Traveler.

“’Strut’ is the culmination of triumph,” she said. “A celebration of feeling good in your own skin, the rush and ferocity of self-love and love for others in their own full, authentic expression.”

The song is an organ-lapped rock n’ roll swagger with dexterous guitars dancing around Miss Velvet’s colossal yet miraculously nuanced voice – a primordial Plant/Joplin/Tyler inner scream she unleashes and controls like few before her. With lyrics and a video drawing upon Miss Velvet’s lifelong fascination with the world of fashion, ‘Strut’ presents its metaphorical catwalk as a liberating, celebratory expression of self esteem.

“Turn around, baby, do the walk for me,” she implores on the song’s addictive refrain. “When you need a hitter, I’m your pickup, so come on!”

Shot deep in the Mojave Desert, the jaw-dropping, golden-hued companion film finds Miss Velvet striding a gilded runway in a gold suit by Gabriela Hearst – a designer who’s woven female empowerment into her brand DNA –, flanked by animated bandmates and a diverse troupe of dancers. Miss Velvet approaches performing, on stage and screen, as she does walking the red carpet at Fashion Week events in Paris, Milan, or New York – with impeccable style, instinctive class, and singular poise.

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On the track, she wrote: “Sometimes, a path to where you need to be is long and winding, whether that be personal or a relationship. My path to finding my partner took us in separate directions after a breakup for ten years. I went off to find who I was and he went off to find who he was. We both lived these lives in search of who we were alone without one another. After 10 years apart, we came back together and I said to myself I took the ‘long way home’ to knowing who I was alone as my own person and who I am with him. The song has these shifts of big sonic dynamics and little soft nuances that embody the paradox of one’s journey in life to also come home to oneself.”

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