Ohio-born, Oakland, CA-based ambient folk artist Maria BC announced their debut LP, Hyaline, due out May 27 via Father/Daughter and Fear of Missing Out Records. It follows their 2021 EP Devil's Rain, and they've shared a new single, the arrestingly lovely "The Only Thing," which you can watch the video for below.
The song is "about allowing yourself to be seen fully by another person," Maria says. "When you find they aren’t afraid, you realize you shouldn’t be either. It took me a bunch of tries to finish the arrangement for this one. It felt too sparse, while the song is about that full, effervescent, sun-is-coming-up feeling of new love. I spent several weeks adding parts and scrapping them — you know, getting nowhere. Then, at some point, I realized the refrain of another song I was working on had the same chord progression as ‘The Only Thing’ refrain. I turned that into a kind of counter-melody, Liz Fraser style, and I think it tied the whole thing together."