Maria BC – Adelaide : Listen

Brooklyn-based artist Maria BC releases their first single from upcoming EP Devil’s Rain today. Made in the midst of quarantining, Maria BC had to record quietly so as not to disturb housemates and neighbors, resulting in a collection of songs with an intimate, sparse, lullaby-like quality.

Maria explains Adelaide as a song inspired by a friend but addressed to their self,

“A friend of mine used to work as a museum guard. Guests would almost never ask her questions, so she had a lot of downtime. She would spend hours journaling, building “memory palaces,” which are a mnemonic device that has helped some people achieve total autobiographical recall. My friend would spend six, seven hours a day making these palaces. When she told me about this, another friend of mine said, “Aren’t you worried about getting lost in your interiority?” And I thought, damn, that’s so true. I’ve seen that happen to so many people. It’s happened to me many times — this feeling that I’m stuck in the architecture of my own ego. “Adelaide” isn’t about my museum guard friend — it’s a song addressed to a depressed version of myself, or someone who needs a hand to pull them back into the social world.”

Devil’s Rain is out on February 5th, 2021 on Fear of Missing Out Records. Pre-order it here.