NYC Scene Report – Silver Liz, Matt Hitt, & B.Miles

This week’s NYC Scene Report features Silver Liz looking to “Dream More Vivid,” Matt Hitt saying “I’m Sorry, New York,” and B.Miles moving “Too Close To The Flame.”

* Silver Liz, which is the Brooklyn-based duo consisting of married couple Carrie and Matt Wagner, will be releasing a new album, titled III, on January 30th, 2026, and the lead single will have you wanting to “Dream More Vivid.”

Discussing the synth-pop-rock song in a statement, Carrie revealed, “‘Dream More Vivid’ is one of the rare songs we’ve written that originated from a jam … We also performed this one live for a long time before recording it, and testing it on audiences, which helped us refine the song. Thematically, the song follows a character we all know – the hot mess at a high school reunion who is coping with crushed dreams and bad decisions by tearing others down to lift themselves up.”

On the production side of things, Matt said, “On this track, and throughout the album in general, I wanted the production to constantly flow through disparate spaces and sounds. We really embraced a maximalist approach. It is hard to know when to stop adding ideas. Whenever Carrie says there is too much going on, I trust it is time to stop.”

Check out “Dream More Vivid,” and let Silver Liz get into your subconscious.

* Welsh-born, NYC-based artist Matt Hitt will be releasing his debut EP, You’ll Be Lucky, this Friday, and the lead single is an apology to the city he calls home.

Titled “I’m Sorry New York,” Hitt explained the inspiration for the song in a statement, saying, “I wrote ‘I’m Sorry New York’ about the city I’ve spent a third of my life living in. Sometimes, it’s cold and you’re broke and it feels like the harshest, most boisterous place to live … and then one day the sun comes out and people on the street are in a good mood … and you fall in love with it all over again. In that sense, New York is sort of like a person that’ll always be a part of you, perhaps the love of your life, even if sometimes they are the bane of it.”

Click play on “I’m Sorry New York,” which is an anthem that’s a perfect representation of the good, and the bad, of this wonderful place.

* Also due out this Friday is the latest project from B.Miles, titled Time Doesn’t Heal. It Hides, and on one recently released single she reveals she’s been living “Too Close To The Flame.”

Discussing the project as a whole, while hinting at the meaning behind the song, B.Miles wrote on Instagram, “It’s been 10 years since I released my first EP, Twenty Fifteen. In the years since, I’ve chased songs, but I’ve also noticed a theme, one that’s burned itself into too many lyrics. Most songs I’ve written over the last 10 years have felt like smoke leading me back to the same flame. Every time I’ve reached for the warmth, I’m burned. Looking back now, I can hear how those burns were already alive in Twenty Fifteen, and the songs I’ve written since seem to fold into that EP, like they were always meant to be part of the same story, which is why, 10 years later, that EP and a handful of songs I’ve carried with me have become something larger. Something that’s been hiding in plain sight all along. Together, these songs have formed an album, one that tells the story I’ve been circling for a decade.”

To say Time Doesn’t Heal. It Hides has been a long time coming would be an understatement, and after one listen to “Too Close To The Flame” you’ll find it was worth the all the time, effort, and life lived to make it happen.

For more of the best of NYC’s indie music scene, come back next Wednesday, and check out the archives for previous columns.