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Under the Bougainvillea is an 11-song album that moves like a private map of love, memory, longing, temptation, loss, and survival. Across these songs, Ali Mills writes with a cinematic, intimate voice, placing desert roads, canyon silence, twilight confessionals, haunted rooms, and California dreamscapes alongside deeply human emotional stakes: desire that cannot settle, relationships that fracture, ghosts that linger, and a restless search for home, freedom, and peace. The record feels both personal and mythic, grounded in vivid imagery while tracing bigger emotional truths about identity, heartbreak, reckoning, and release.

At its core, Under the Bougainvillea is a record about living inside contradictions: romance and ruin, fantasy and consequence, devotion and escape, grief and transcendence. From the spiritual hush of the title track and “Canyon” to the bruised candor of “Mercury Rising,” “White Wing,” and “Homewrecker,” and onward to the expansive, almost eternal perspective of “Everywhere” and “Avalanche,” the album unfolds as a collection of sharply drawn emotional scenes tied together by poetic lyricism and a distinctly West Coast sense of beauty and danger. It is vulnerable, sensual, weathered, and unafraid, a body of work that turns inner conflict into atmosphere and confession into song.

Player Credits:

Ben Mathews    
Bass

Steve McCormick    
Guitars, Acoustic, Electric

Dylan Salfer    
Guitars, Electric

Lyle Riddle    
Drums

Joe Karnes    
Bass

Jimmy Paxson    
Drums

Pete Hennig    
Drums

Blake Mills    
Keyboards/Synthesizer

Andy White    
Guitars

Kaitlin Wolfberg    
Strings 

Heather Donovan    
Background Vocals

Ricky Cortes    
Bass

Eric Heywood    
Pedal Steel

Ali Mills    
Lead Vocals, Guitars, Electric, Acoustic, Bass, Percussion

Dash Hutton    
Studio Engineer

Kevin Smith
Mix Engineer

Gavin Lurssen
Mastering Engineer

India Jade Gail    
Album Cover Artwork Illustration

Neil Cabana    
Photography, Cover Art Design