Today, singer/songwriter/actor Maya Hawke has announced that she will be releasing her new album, Chaos Angel, on May 31st via Mom+Pop Records. Chaos Angel is her third studio album overall, following 2022’s Moss and her 2020 debut album, Blush.
Chaos Angel was co-produced by Moss co-songwriter and collaborator Christian Lee Hutson, and features contributions with longstanding collaborators Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe. Chaos Angel serves as a deeply beautiful, meditative album about falling in love, fucking it up, and getting back up again.
Additionally, the 25-year old star has released the album’s lead single, “Missing Out.” The song is a wry yet poignant one derived from a semester Hawke spent living near her brother’s college campus and partying it up with his classmates, a belated attempt at the formative college experience she never had for herself.
The release of “Missing Out” comes alongside a science-fiction influenced music video directed by Alex Ross Perry.
Of the song’s storyline, Maya says, “There was actually a girl who went to Brown, where my brother goes to college, and we were all going around saying what our wish was for ourselves. She said, I want to write the next great American novel. It was the moment where I felt older than everyone because I laughed so hard. I was like, “You are so far down the wrong track!” Wish to write a novel. That would be a miracle. Don’t wish to write the next great American novel, that’s a nightmare! It made me feel I actually am a different place in my life than these people I was around. It totally inspired this whole song.”
Watch the music video below and pre-order Chaos Angel here.
Hawke and her band will be performing at Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of the Tibet House Benefit Concert on February 26thalongside Joan Baez, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Maggie Rogers. Tickets are available here.
