Strummed acoustic guitar introduces the track alongside Miller’s wistful, slightly dreamy vocal, with accordion quietly colouring the background. From there, ‘teeth filed down’ gradually expands: bright electric guitar provides flashes of sonic glitter, while piano and light percussion slowly enter around its driving rhythm. The chorus opens up further through layered vocals, lending Miller’s indie-pop a subtle celestial glow without losing its intimacy.

That gradual build beautifully complements the song’s blossoming affection, as though those feelings are intensifying almost unnoticed. The accompanying video mirrors that progression, beginning with softly framed, near-still bedroom scenes and close-ups before introducing more movement as Miller begins to dance a little. Its dreamy pinks, reds and blues give the whole thing the feel of a romantic coming-of-age film. Warm, nostalgic and quietly lovestruck, ‘teeth filed down’ captures the way affection can creep up on you piece by piece.

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The Brooklyn resident and Massachusetts native penned the emotive, star-gazing ‘kansas,’ the first taste of October’s new EP like you used to, as a composite sketch reflecting many of the friendships she’s had with the opposite sex. As it turns out, there was a discrepancy developing in these friendships with men that was not simply present with other women.  

“I noticed that in most of my friendships with women, I just felt like a person,” Miller says. “But in a lot of my past friendships with men, I was really hyper aware of being a girl and playing the role of emotional support mother or girlfriend without receiving that support back. I remember thinking to myself, ‘I know the first and last name of every person who’s ever been mean to these guys, and they don’t even know what book I am currently reading, or the names of my brothers’.”

She pauses, then adds: “To me, it’s a platonic friendship breakup song that I wrote after taking a step back from a lot of those friendships and looking at the patterns that threaded them all together.”

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