Miles Away Turns Growing Pains into Melodic EDM on Debut Album “Concrete Cuts”

About the Artist

Canadian producer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Miles Away, the project of Vancouver-based artist Devin Belanger, released his debut album Concrete Cuts on May 29, 2026. Across 12 tracks, he blends indie-pop melodies with cinematic electronic production, using memories, lost innocence, and the growing pains of adulthood as the foundation for a nostalgic coming-of-age record.

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The Album

Vertigo opens the album sounding like it is spinning gently on its feet, twirling. “I will find my way down to the place that I lost…I will find my way back home, vertigo.” Then, after the chorus, the entire track lifts as the percussion crashes in and the electronic production takes over. It feels like falling and flying at the same time. Next, Younger Years ft. Casey Cook arrives like flashes of childhood memories. The percussion hits hard, but there is a warmth underneath it that makes it feel nostalgic, like a summer night sometime around 2015. “Wait till the sun comes up, break the rules with your friends…I know now I’d go back to the younger years.” The whole song carries that longing for a version of life that felt simpler when you were living it.

Would I Even Like Me ft. SABAI and RUNN shifts the mood entirely. It feels like staring out of a rain-streaked window while your mind wanders. The lyrics, “If little me could see me now, would I even like me?” make it one of the album’s most reflective moments. That feeling continues into Childhood Bedroom ft. Dia Frampton. Opening on acoustic guitar and bare vocals, feeling small and intimate. “The world feels too big for me these days…wondering how I could get back to my childhood bedroom.” It captures the comfort of a place that no longer exists quite the way you remember it, reaching for a sense of security that adulthood rarely offers.

After that, Suitcases pulls the album back. Here, the electronic production deepens and the vocals drift through layers of synth textures. “Wherever I go with you is home.” At its core, it is a song about discovering that home is not always somewhere you return to, but sometimes somebody you carry with you. Following that, Dream Atrophy is easily the album’s most intense moment. This is proper headbanging rave territory. It blooms and blows up equally, with its wobbly and loud textures. Beneath all that intensity, the song reflects on the way childhood dreams slowly fade as you grow older and life becomes more rigid.

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Following that, Rewind Please ft. Olivia Ridgely slows things down again. Built around gentle melodies and soothing vocals, the track dwells on the desire to turn back time and hold onto somebody who is no longer there. “You know I’d give the whole world just to turn back time.” Lastly, Concrete Cuts, the title track, opens like somebody quietly flipping through old photographs. “To the songs we used to sing when we were free…all the concrete and cash never cut so deep.” The song captures the bittersweet feeling of outgrowing the place you came from, trading childhood freedom for deadlines, and realizing that freedom, places, and even people do not stay untouched forever.

While this is only a glimpse into what Concrete Cuts has to offer, the full album is well worth spending time with! So go give it a listen!

Throughout the album, memories hang around like ghosts. It constantly returns to the things that seem to disappear as you grow older. Childhood freedom, old dreams, familiar places, lost relationships, and earlier versions of yourself all drift through the album in different ways. Even at its most energetic, there is a longing running underneath it. Not necessarily to go back, but to understand what was left behind. Beneath the EDM production, rave moments, and soaring choruses, Concrete Cuts understands that growing up is just as much about loss as it is about growth. It reflects on what gets left behind and in a way learning how to carry those earlier versions of yourself ahead with hope.

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