Maya Hawke - Maitreya Corso [2LP Baby Blue & Bone]

Maya Hawke builds a world of her own on Maitreya Corso, her fourth album, pressed across two LPs of baby blue and bone vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

Best known to many as an actor, Hawke has quietly grown into a gifted, folk-rooted songwriter, shaped by heroes such as Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Patti Smith. This 2026 album, released on Mom+Pop, was recorded in New York and co-produced by her husband, songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, with Jonathan Low. Close friends fill out the band, among them Benjamin Lazar Davis, guitarist Will Graefe, drummer Michael Riddleberger and violinist Odessa Jorgensen.

Hawke has described the record as being about learning to protect the precious from the poisonous, and its songs frame that idea through a fantastical, slightly mythic lens. Lead single "Devil You Know" wrestles with keeping ambition and greed out of creative work, while "Lioness" and "Bring Home My Man" followed it as singles. "Dream House" brings the thirteen-song set to a close.

The album's artwork draws on Hawke's own watercolour paintings, which makes the gatefold feel like an extension of the music. It is an intimate, handmade-feeling record from an artist growing more confident with every release, and a lovely object to live with.