Maia Friedman - Under The New Light

Maia Friedman - Under The New Light

Tracklist:

1.Where the Rocks Are

2. First to Love

3. Happiness

4. Under the New Light

5. Elevate Us

6. Sunny Room

7. Raintime for Yohei

8. All We Are (How to Last)

9. Interlude

10. A Sleep in the Garden

Today, January 19th, Brooklyn’s Maia Friedman is delighted to announce her debut solo album, Under The New Light, out on Last Gang Records, March 11, 2022. After the critical acclaim of the first single “Where The Rocks Are” from the likes of Rolling Stone and NPR All Songs Considered, Maia has just released the second single “First To Love,” a mellifluous tune about the emotional wonders of being human.

As an ode to the shifting landscape of our own lives, Friedman began Under the New Light four years ago, while teaching music and performing in multiple New York bands. “Collaborating gives me the juice,” she says, laughing. In 2018 Friedman was asked to join Dirty Projectors and a heavy schedule of touring followed. She sang and co-wrote the lyrics for the first of their 5 EPs, released last year, most notably for the soothing earworm “Overlord.” Meanwhile, Friedman also formed Coco, which began as a collaborative recording project with Oliver Hill (Dustrider, Pavo Pavo) and Dan Molad(Lucius, Chimney) and they released music anonymously until the announce of their 2021 self-titled debut.

Friedman’s voice lends a unique quality of warm comfort that permeates all her collaborations, but Under the New Light presents her full intention. Her role is that of the wounded healer, one who has gained wisdom through darkness and grief.

The album plays like a fulfilled journey, and though Friedman is still somewhere in the middle of her own, on Under the New Light her vision is fully formed. On the bright closer “A Sleep in the Garden,” she nods, for better or worse, toward the future: “I won’t look away / when you show me more.”

RELEASE DATE: 3/11/2022