Maria DeHart and the tender dreamy psych melancholia of "Emily" (Official Video)

 

"I wish I could write songs about everything that's wrong..."

Listening to the easy bedroom folk indie psychedelic sleepy sway of Maria DeHart's (and friends') "Emily", while gazing at the Official Video, I eased back in my soft chair. To say that this beautiful sad hug of a song feels a bit narcotic might be a bit of an exaggeration but artists or an amalgam of artists like Elliot Smith, Wes Anderson, Lewis Carroll, Mazzy Star, Evan Dando, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the Cranberries danced through my floating mind all holding hands while dancing barefoot on the grass.

Press notes reveal feelings / thoughts that inform the song:

[Nodding to the feelings elicited from listening to Emily Yacina’s “Remember the Silver,” the new track is about DeHart’s discovery of new ways to exist in her own bubble: online, at night, at protests, or hunkered in a basement until late at night with her similarly unemployed intimate inner circle.]

Says DeHart, “It’s about crushing on someone new and feeling hopeless in the face of my inability to do anything about it. It's about feeling trapped and suffocated in a big city and wanting to move to a different one yet also being fully aware that I would still feel trapped in a whole new and bigger place. At the same time, it’s also a hopeful song about figuring out how to feel okay about where I'm at.”

"Emily" is Maria DeHart's follow up to this years 4 song EP "Quarantunes" via Strawberry Moon Records.

-Robb Donker Curtius

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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

https://soundcloud.com/maria-dehart/3-obsessions

https://open.spotify.com/track/5pT2gH5aYadHcx3Lkg2uI2

https://www.facebook.com/mariadehartmusic

https://www.instagram.com/mariadehartmusic/

https://mariadehart.bandcamp.com/


Last year, in the blurred-together, overlong, and impossibly-difficult-to-keep-track-of epoch of quarantine, Maria DeHart dove into self-reflection. Navigating the complete lack of physical freedom of lockdown afforded her freedom of a new kind – the time to explore creatively and spontaneously.

While she usually performs with a band, DeHart began writing and recording, putting together a series of quiet and dreamy songs. From uncertainty and chaos, DeHart stitched together her latest EP, "Quarantunes", a collection of comfortably crafted bedroom-pop songs that exists in liminal spaces: sun-dusted apartments, small bedrooms, and anywhere but outdoors.

Maria DeHart, Bedroom / Lo-fi Pop, Dream Pop, indie rock, psych pop, folk indie, dream folk, bohemian, singer-songwriter, "Emily", "Quarantunes",