Maya Hawke appears on the cover of Alternative Press’ Summer 2024 Issue

For our summer season difficulty, musician, actor, and total polymath Maya Hawke introduces AltPress to Chaos Angel, her heartstrings-tugging third studio album, and grants us entry to the inside sanctum of inspiration that gave method to it. The Stranger Issues star outlines her eclectic musical influences, from Miley Cyrus to the Nice American Songbook, and the non secular journey she underwent for her function as Flannery O’Connor within the 2023 movie Wildcat, which in the end 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 search out that in every single place she was attempting 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 customarily 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 in opposition to enamel, tiny gulps, and tender inhales.

“It is a file about codependency, self-actualization, and self-forgiveness,” she says. “It’s sonically explorative whereas conserving 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 a complete, dreamy and confessional.”
Her confessions proceed in our summer season difficulty, 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.