Today, Maya Hawke has shared another stunning new single, “Dark.”
“Dark” is the latest single released from her upcoming album, Chaos Angel, which will be released on May 31st via Mom+Pop Records. Chaos Angel is the talented multi-hyphenate’s third album and follows the success of her acclaimed sophomore full-length, Moss.
Created with Hawke’s longstanding collaborators Christian Lee Huston, Benjamin Lazar Davis and Will Graefe, Chaos Angel is a deeply beautiful, meditative album about falling in love, fucking it up, and getting back up again.
The release of “Dark” once again sees Hawke collaborating with director Alex Ross Perry for a visual that is incredibly otherworldly.
“‘Dark’ is a cut and dry love song about a relationship struggling to find its footing. It’s about trying to sort out the mixed bag of history and pain two people bring into a new love to find the path forward,” Hawke says on the new single. “The chorus was written a few years ago when I was going through a particularly debilitating bout of bedtime anxiety: I would lay in bed with the fear that if I let myself fall asleep, my brain would forget how to breathe and I would die in my sleep. I saw a doctor who told me that I had to become okay with dying. He said if I accepted it, I would be able to sleep and would likely…not die. He was right, I didn’t die. And I wrote this song to celebrate it.”
Watch the music video below and pre-order Chaos Angel here.
In celebration of her upcoming album, Hawke has also announces special record release shows. On Saturday, June 1st she performs both early and late sets at Third Man Records in Nashville, Tennessee. Followed by a show at Buckhead Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday, June 2nd.
Upcoming shows:
Saturday June 1 (early show) – Third Man Records – Nashville, TN
Saturday June 1 (late show) – Third Man Records – Nashville, TN
Sunday, June 2 – Buckhead Theatre – Atlanta, GA
