Briston Maroney - Normal Heights [Colored]

Some songs wait years for the right moment, and Briston Maroney's Normal Heights is one of them, a four-song EP pressed here on colored vinyl.

Maroney recorded these songs around eight years before they finally came out in 2026, just days after leaving his first stint in rehab. Life and timing kept them on the shelf while he built a devoted following with albums like Sunflower and Jimmy, but he never let them go, and by his own account he went to real lengths to get them released on his own terms.

Even If You Are Not Mine, the first song shared from the set, carries the ache of someone learning to love without holding on too tightly. Greatest Love opens the EP with an open-hearted glow, I Found You follows with quiet gratitude, and Summer Song closes on a hazy, bittersweet note that feels like the last light of a long day.

There is a rawness here that suits the story behind it, the sound of a young songwriter steadying himself in real time, with guitars and voice left close and unvarnished. Nothing has been polished away, and that honesty is the point.

For listeners who have followed Maroney from his early releases, Normal Heights fills in an important chapter, and it is a moving one.