Summer of Fear

Summer of Fear is the culmination of years spent in eight-track studios, cypher-fueled jam sessions, and dicey club dates that often ended in fist fights and broken glass. Not to mention a revolving door of collaborators that helped Robinson work out the kinks in his skewed pop hooks and melancholic melodies, including members of Grizzly Bear.

Recorded six months prior to Miles' self-titled debut effort, Summer of Fear is about a life alternating between darkness and light; how spare bedroom songs blossomed into speaker-popping arrangements of sweeping strings, honking horns and chords that cut so deeply they're bound to leave a mark. A biting cross-section of Petty and Dylan, Pavement and Fleetwood Mac, delivering a eulogy to yesterday and the curtain-drawing promise of another day. Not just any day, either: a day Robinson's determined to seize on an international stage, with a battered guitar by his side and a four-alarm fire in his chest.