Vancouver’s Myles From Home close the year with new single, “You’re Gonna Go Far”
Vancouver indie folk-rock trio Myles From Home are closing out the year with a deeply personal release. Their new single, “You’re Gonna Go Far,” is a warm, emotionally resonant reflection on childhood memory, gratitude, and the moments that shape who we become. Blending their signature genre-fluid sound with one of their most intimate stories to date, the track captures the feeling of standing on the edge of possibility – and the people who believed in you long before you believed in yourself. We caught up with lead vocalist/guitarist Myles Hildebrand to talk about the inspiration behind the song, its emotional impact live, and the creative momentum they’re carrying forward.
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“You’re Gonna Go Far” is rooted in a childhood moment with your dad. Can you take us deeper into that memory and why it stayed with you long enough to become a song?
The lyrics explain why this stayed with me, over the course of three verses. The first verse tells the story of when he first said it, when I was driving a tractor at the farm I started working on when I was 12. The second verse talks about the days when my parents came to visit me while I was studying engineering at McGill. The third verse comes full circle and tells about the recent moment when he asked me if I remembered that original moment, which, of course, I did.
You’ve described getting emotional every time you perform this track live. How does the crowd’s reaction shape your connection to the song onstage?
I always start this song with a little story about where it came from. It’s a significant divergence from the subjects we cover in our songs, mostly love and love lost. The romantic variety that is. This always grabs the audience in a different way.
This is your third release of the year, following “I Remember” and “Almost Everything.” How does “You’re Gonna Go Far” fit into the emotional or creative arc you’ve been building across these singles?
These are all singles from our debut album, Still, which is already available on vinyl, with digital singles still to come. “You’re Gonna Go Far” builds on the nostalgia of “I Remember” and goes in a positive, hopeful, and opposite direction from the sombre, longing vibe in “Almost Everything.”
Your music blends folk-rock, funk, jazz-tinged textures, and more – what sonic or storytelling choices guided the arrangement of this track in particular?
This one came from the marrying of two disparate riffs. A funky one with some alternate time signature moments that became the verse, and a legato open-string guitar one that became the chorus. I had the lyric idea in my head for a while, and when I first put both riffs together, I knew this was the music for those words.
A lot of your songs explore memory, place, and personal history. What role does nostalgia play in your writing process, and how do you balance intimate stories with universal themes?
Years ago, I wrote a very intimate story into a song that became one of my most fan-appreciated songs. Since then, I’ve been drawn towards using my own intimate stories for songs that inevitably draw on universal themes because deep down we’re all so similar.
Myles From Home has become known for creative, unexpected visuals – from Mario Kart–style shoots to canoe performances. How do you imagine the visual world around “You’re Gonna Go Far”?
I travel a lot with my guitar, and I managed to get videos of me playing the song all over the world. I used clips of these for the video content for the song.
This song reflects a moment of feeling like “you have the world at your feet.” What do you hope listeners take away from it, especially those going through their own turning points?
That you can go far if you want and stay near if you want. But mostly, that you can go far if you really want to.