For our summer time situation, musician, actor, and general polymath Maya Hawke introduces AltPress to Chaos Angel, her heartstrings-tugging third studio album, and grants us entry to the interior sanctum of inspiration that gave strategy to it. The Stranger Issues star outlines her eclectic musical influences, from Miley Cyrus to the Nice American Songbook, and the religious journey she underwent for her function as Flannery O’Connor within the 2023 movie Wildcat, which finally led to the inception of Chaos Angel, the character and idea guiding her new album.
“This angel thought she was an angel of affection, and got here all the way down to Earth to attempt to be one — solely to seek out that in all places she was making an attempt to create love, she created chaos.” Hawke reveals. “First she hated herself, after which hated her maker… After which, she realized that in all of the locations that she thought that she’d created chaos, magnificence was rising again.”
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Throughout 10 tracks, Hawke lays naked her relationships. By way of the lens of the angel, she unravels the usually uneasy complexities of humanity, and human connection — which she serves us with pressing, romantic lyricism, and a uncooked, sincere sonic panorama peppered with air whistling towards enamel, tiny gulps, and smooth inhales.
“It is a document about codependency, self-actualization, and self-forgiveness,” she says. “It’s sonically explorative whereas retaining you in an indie-rock consolation zone. And greater than my different information, it has extra drums and actual moments of tempo however stays, as an entire, dreamy and confessional.”
Her confessions proceed in our summer time situation, the place Hawke opens as much as Various Press. Additionally in AP’s 2024 Summer season Difficulty, discover options on Wallows, Remi Wolf, Luke Hemmings, and extra.
Pictures by Dani Aphrodite
Styling by Ashley Abtahie
Hair by Peter Butler
Make-up by Mary Wiles
Set design by Michael Newton
Set design help by Vivian Swift
