For the past couple of years, Maya Hawke has been busy in the acting world, wrapping the final season of Stranger Things and taking on a role in The Hunger Games franchise. The American singer is now returning to music, unveiling her upcoming fourth album, ‘Maitreya Corso’, and sharing its lead single, ‘Devil You Know’.
‘Devil You Know’ is a stripped-back and honest track with folk influences. Speaking about the song, she says “‘Devil You Know’ is about trying to keep ambition and greed out of the creative process. This album is about learning to protect the precious from the poisonous. Protect creation from pride. Protect love from control. Protect collaboration from jealousy.”
For her highly anticipated fourth album, set for release on May 1st, charts Hawke’s experiences of a life-changing relationship. For ‘Maitreya Corso’, Hawke has created a persona and fantasy world to allow her to explore complex feelings with more depth. Speaking about the character she has crafted, she describes her as a “magical misfit, whose sheer inability to adapt to the surrounding world allows her to create a world of her own, and to explore the positive and negative power of the ego.”
Hawke enlisted the help of regular collaborators, singer-songwriter (and new husband) Christian Lee Hutson, multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Lazar Davis, and producer Jonathan Low to bring her stories to life on ‘Maitreya Corso’.
The news of the upcoming release was accompanied by the announcement of a slew of live shows, which will be her first US tour in three years. Get tickets.
April
10th – Levon Helm Studios, Woodstock, NY
11th – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, NY
15th – Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR
16th – Triple Door, Seattle, WA
18th – The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
20th – Sid The Cat Auditorium, South Pasadena, CA
21st – Troubadour, West Hollywood, CA
23rd – Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO
26th – Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL
29th – The Atlantis, Washington, DC
May
1st – Crystal Ballroom @ Somerville Theater, Somerville, MA
2nd – Bowery Ballroom, Manhattan, NY
Watch our last interview with Hawke, below.
