For her fourth album, Maya Hawke regathered key members of her steady writing/recording crew – Christian Lee Hudson, Benjamin Lazer Davis, Will Graefe – who continue to take chances and gradually broaden her sound instead of opting for the warm comfort of a default sweetly melodic, charmingly confessional songwriter sensibility (although there’s some of that here, too). Joining them in the studio was another prior collaborator, producer/engineer Jonathan Low (Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, Caroline Shaw). Hawke’s most ambitious album to date, the 13-song Maitreya Corso is both her wordiest and most assertive-sounding yet, with some of its tracks employing tricks like layered and manipulated vocals in a way that suggests modern…
