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…
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Ohio band, Caamp, has released their fifth studio album Copper Changes Color. “Nothing stays the same forever,” says Caamp’s Taylor Meier, “and there’s something beautiful about that. Time passes, seasons turn, people grow. Change is what makes life special.” The suggestion is that this is the band’s most adventurous album to date, and is indeed, a reflection on growth and evolution, but also perhaps a celebration of the dreams and bonds that endure. The album was recorded in Texas, Oregon, and New York with co-production from Beatriz Artola (Fleet Foxes, Sharon Van Etten) and Tucker Martine (My Morning Jacket, R.E.M.).
On the title of the album Meier elaborates: “When we were putting the finishing touches on this record, I started noticing copper everywhere I went.