Why Stranger Things star Maya Hawke actually likes her new album for once
Maya Hawke talks about her fourth album, Maitreya Corso, which she made with husband Christian Lee Hutson, and life after Stranger Things
Maya Hawke sits at a picnic table in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, with an iced tea and a small notebook and happily reports that she still likes her new record.
“Every other album cycle I’ve done, by the time I got to the point where the album came out, I hated it,” the 27-year-old singer and actor says. “I was just exhausted by the internet and by being public, and I wouldn’t want to post about it. So I kind of tried to build this roll-out where it could be enjoyable. And it seems to be working.”
On this recent morning, she is about a week and a half from releasing Maitreya Corso, a set of deep-thinking folk-pop songs about love and art and how the two intersect.
To help drum up interest in the LP, Hawke’s fourth, she is on tour playing intimate live gigs like the one she did at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, where she was accompanied by Christian Lee Hutson, with whom she made the record.
Here she talks about songwriting, falling in love and life after Stranger Things.