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The First Miles plays dusty highway-rock filled with love, longing and thirst for life. The debut album, Aim for the Heart, Go !, contains 10 elegant narrations on finding a path through life, and getting lost once in a while. The highway poetry of Jeppe Foldager is like landscapes from a road movie within, which in a laid-back manner explores the wide depths and dark corners of the mind. Always moving, always searching for a place to rest.

Aim for the Heart, Go ! is released in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, by the band's own record label Little Bad Bear in partnership with Noiz Music/EMI, and went directly in as "Album Of The Week" in P4 Rock on Danish national radio and the first single became a candidate for P3's hit list called "Tjeklisten" (also Danish national radio).

A lot of praise for The First Miles is right now coming from abroad, where critics in the Netherlands, Belgium, England and the US are enthusiastic. Dedicated to the traditional American rootsrock, to alternative country and to Americana, they all display total agreement. One of the prophecies about The First Miles is, for instance, that the debut album could be "the alt-country of the future".

And most likely the critics know what they are talking about. Because, at the same time, Belgian, Dutch, Canadian and American radio stations have adopted the band and given them airplay. The future looks promising, and The First Miles is currently searching for a booking company abroad, while the record label is working on getting the album released in the US, Canada and the rest of Europe.

The First Miles is based in Aalborg, Denmark, and Aim for the Heart, Go ! is recorded by the band themselves, and mixed by Flemming Rasmussen (Metallica, Gasolin, Sort Sol) in Sweet Silence, Copenhagen.

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"The alt-country of the future?" Rootstime
"Listeners favourite" Canadian radio Music Melt
"Album of the week" Danish national radio P4 Rock
"Manly and sensitive and tough and romantic - wounded but strong. This album is incredible !" It's a Trap
"Billederne fra Guds eget land kommer skyllende på den indre filmfremviser" Soundvenue
"The First Miles känns bra mycket mer äkta än flertalet" 4 stars Musiklandet
"..uendelige miles, bristede hjerter og eftertænksomme øjeblikke" Undertoner
"En fremragende køretur med The First Miles" 4 stars Vejle Amts Folkeblad
"Foldagers raw voice is the ace in the pack" 3.5 stars Altcountry NL
"Et modent dansk bud indenfor genren. Støvet landevejsrock med højt oktantal" 4 stars Nordjyske
"...stuck with me for a long time - Hot 10 list" Real Roots Café
"Track of the Week in Americana" 5 stars Garageband
"Dyb og levende - et friskt skud på stammen" Cd-guiden
"Tjeklisten candidate" Danish national radio P3
"No. 1 in Roots/Rock" 5 stars Broadjam
"No. 1 in Alternative Country" Audiostreet
"No. 1 in Americana" Audiostreet