Today Surfing Sound Waves is featuring “Dark Alley Dangers” by Miranda Finn x KLZ. Born in New York, NY and raised in Los Angeles, Miranda Finn is a writer, poet, singer/songwriter and performer with a creative spirit and curious mind. She pairs shimmering, ruminative lyrics with hard-hitting R&B/hip-hop tracks by blending classic influences like Joni Mitchell, Alanis Morissette, and Ani Difranco with modern artistic role models like Sudan Archives, Ashnikko, Robyn, and Jessie Reyez. Miranda’s music aims to connect human beings through shared experience. Her overall artistic motivation is to uncover the intersectional mysteries of language, sound, and movement through a feminist lens. KLZ is a producer and artist from Los Angeles. Growing up, he worked as a DJ at local functions, helping expand his musical horizons while sharing the music that he loved. That love for music later inspired him to blend musical genres, creating the original sounds and unique beats that he makes today.
“When we sat down to brain-dump ideas for the song, we realized that we were right on the same wavelength, both of us having recently started college and moved to the east coast from LA.”, Miranda Finn and KLZ shared, “The experiences we were both having at that time inspired a metaphor that compares LA to the warm, cushy lifestyle of being a carefree teenager, while comparing New York City to the scary, harsh, yet sometimes exhilarating reality of being an adult in the real world.”
