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On Maya Hawke’s New Folk-Pop Album, ‘Chaos Angel,’ She Embraces Musical Drama She Once Rejected as ‘Actorly’: ‘It’s About Becoming Less Fearful’
Singer-actor Maya Hawke talks about how she became comfortable bringing a greater sense of drama to her folk-pop music with new album 'Chaos Angel.'
After a couple of coyly evocative, sad, spare folk-pop albums (“Blush” and “Moss”), “Chaos Angel” reaches further into Hawke’s emotional truths and interpersonal relationships and, often, comes up happier. Hawke quickly credits co-songwriters and band members such as Jessie Harris (Norah Jones’ one-time foil), Benjamin Lazar Davis (from Okkervil River) and Christian Lee Hutson (a producer on “Chaos Angel,” and close collaborator to Phoebe Bridgers) for coloring between the lines of her songs. Considering Hawke’s endurance – as an actor, as a singer-songwriter, as one who has lived within the shadow of limelight since childhood – and the clever depths of emotion on “Chaos Angel,” it’s worth noting that her storytelling abilities are strong, and only getting stronger.
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