Chaos Angel by Maya Hawke

Chaos Angel, Maya Hawke's third album, came out on Mom + Pop on May 31, 2024, and the actor best known as Robin Buckley on Stranger Things sounds more at home in her songs than ever. She brought back her regular collaborators from Moss, Christian Lee Hutson, Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe, and cut the record at the Outlier Inn in Woodstock, New York, and at Electric Lady Studios in New York City.

Hawke has called it a happier record than Moss, and she pointed to James Blake and Adrianne Lenker as touchstones, which you can hear in its soft-focus textures and hushed, close-miked intimacy. Most of it was finished before she shot the film Wildcat early in 2023; only the closing title track was written and recorded afterwards. Not everything is sunny: "Dark" came out of a spell of severe anxiety about falling asleep. "Missing Out" was unveiled along with the album announcement on Valentine's Day 2024.

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