New York City-based producer, songwriter, and vocalist Maiya Blaney shares her new song “Honey I” via Lex Records, today. Alongside the track, Blaney shares David Murray-shot and Nora Cammann-edited video of Blaney exhuming rage with bats and sledgehammers. “Honey I” closely follows Blaney’s recently shared single “Fumbled,” which was co-produced with Emerson Fossett and Harlan Steed of Show Me The Body alongside Blaney and arrived with a video directed by Fiona Kane shot through the streets and shadows of New York City. “Honey I” and “Fumbled” tease a larger project from Blaney slated to arrive later this year from Lex Records.

 

 

Speaking about the new song and video, Blaney shares, “‘Honey, I’ is one of the most vulnerable, doubtful, and unsure songs I’ve ever written. It was this feeling that felt endless, a never ending sinking. And I was like, I don’t even want to find a way out of this because I don’t know if I can right now. I just need to name it.

The song and its visuals are all opposites attracting. I’m smashing shit to bits to what sounds like a lullaby. The production is slowed down jungle drums in the pocket of what would otherwise be a lonely acoustic guitar ballad. There are moments of play and performance (to camera) in the video and also moments of pure rage that I didn’t even know would make it in. And mainly, to one of the sweetest sounding songs I’ve written in the last 2 years, I’m admitting some of the saddest fears I’ve ever had about myself.”

Since 2019, Blaney has been releasing music lacquered with emotion. 2021 saw the release of her album 3, which meditated on neo-soul and R&B sonics. With her new material, Blaney fully dives into her unsavory feelings of anxiety and unease, creating a tumultuous and intricate sound where drum n bass weaves with droning guitars, blips of glitch ping pong against grating synth, and Blaney’s vocals range from searing punk exclamations to gentle, exploratory croons.