CHAOS ANGEL

Description

Maya Hawke is a musician, songwriter, actress, and producer. She has released two critically acclaimed music albums to date, Moss (2022) and Blush (2020), both of which showcase her natural gift for songwriting and storytelling, as well as a talent for striking visual presentation with covers of her own creation. "Thérèse," the first single from Moss, captured worldwide attention with its enchanting video directed by Brady Corbet—and tens of millions of streams—and saw Maya make an impressive television debut on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Maya and her band have received a multitude of rave reviews for sold-out shows in the U.S. and the EU, as well as support slots for Bright Eyes and Faye Webster. Now 25 years old, Maya's third album, Chaos Angel, continues the sober and viscerally honest songwriting that has made her a name and goes further and bolder. Both her most sonically sophisticated collection and her most thematically nuanced to date, it feels like a culmination. Through these 10 songs, Hawke catalogs upheavals, revelations, weaknesses, and unfulfilled promises, while navigating the patterns we repeat as we strive for growth, getting lost and finding our way back to a fundamental understanding of ourselves. Chaos Angel is also a document of Hawke's blossoming as a musician. More adventurous in the studio after her two previous albums, Hawke leaned into her ambition. Many of these tracks are still anchored by acoustic guitar and Hawke's graceful yet conversational voice, but their surroundings are more complex and lush than ever. She reunited with her longtime collaborators, Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe, with Christian Lee Hutson as producer.