Blissful harmonies and soothing melodies are at the heart of everything The Maes do.
It’s music that hits you in the feels, both lyrically and instrumentally.
“Tell me what you want from me/ Tell me what you want from me…” – opener Come Alive’s escalating choruses promise healing communal singalong moments at their future gigs.
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Siblings Maggie and Elsie Rigby sing with divine purity. Their voices rightfully hog the spotlight as instrumentation breezes in and out of these refined arrangements. Wait, is that sneaky sax in Surface Paint? The likes of violin, mandolin, pedal steel and lap steel are also utilised when called for.
“I want to be enough/ I want to be enough…” – we hear ya, sisters! With its jaunty banjo undercurrent, Enough longs for self-acceptance.
Maggie has admitted that characters in folk songs shaped her understanding of gender and sexuality, with Loretta unpacking a line from Townes Van Zandt’s song of the same name.
You’re Ok reminds us that “pasta, chocolate and wine” help ease heartache. We’ll keep this one’s reassuring, titular mantra in our back pocket for next time anxiety creeps in, too.
Big Cheese is a mischievous, happy-clappy “sweet rock’n’roll” number: “I’m alone in the bush and I don’t need no shotgun.” Life may have “taken a toll”, but onward and upward, hey?
“I was at the tail end of grieving… And you were there with the smell of oranges in your hair” – lyrical specificity brings these stories to vivid life.
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