Calgary two-piece Miesha & The Spanks, comprised of Miesha Louie and Sean Hamilton, winners of the 2024 WCMA for Breakout Artist of the year, are back with a new EP, Visions, on a new label, SUPERCONNECTED (formerly Red Music Rising). Produced by Juno Award winner Hill Kourkoutis (Aysanabee, Royal Wood, SATE), the follow-up to 2023’s Unconditional Love In Hi-Fi is filled with raw and catchy destined anthems that cover themes of self-esteem, gender norms, Indigeneity and stoicism.  

“Visions is kind of a refresh,” says Miesha who formed the namesake project in 2008 and cemented the duo with Sean in 2015.  “It’s 10 years of me and Sean playing together. This is where I envisioned the band going, what I imagined it would be like, the kind of music we’re playing, the kind of stuff that we’re able to put out.  Our energy, our live show – it was always working towards this.”

‘Good Boys’ is the focus track of Visions – a hot and heavy examination of what is a “good boy.” Rich with riffs and hooks, the infectious four on the floor chorus builds up to a sing-a-long reminder that you don’t have to be a dick.

Miesha adds, “It’s about raising good boys, and asking what is a good boy, or a good man, and recalls the many times in sexual assault cases/trials when a young man is facing charges and everyone comes out to say what a “good boy” he is and how it’s his future that could be ruined.”

Visions’ release cycle kicked off with the empowering pop-pogo single “Cut My Bangs” in January, followed by the tumultuous punk introspective “Fight My Body,” and a grunge anthem testing self-regulation, “Smiling.”

From Miesha: “Visions ties together ideas of who we are, who we thought we would be, and where we come from. It’s a coming-of-middle-age reckoning with what’s real in a time where we can project our visions as reality to the whole world at any given moment, and in turn see the same from others and weigh them against ourselves. It’s a closer look at where we are now, as well as our communities. How far have we come. Where do we still have to go.”