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A Room With A Door That Closes album artwork by Brett Stanley
DUE JUNE 13TH VIA LEX RECORDS
SHARES NEW SINGLE “RECOGNIZE ME”
New York City-based producer, songwriter, and vocalist Maiya Blaney announces her new album A Room With A Door That Closes due June 13th via Lex Records. The forthcoming album will include the previously shared tracks “Honey I” and “Fumbled,” along with the brand new single “Recognize Me,” which arrives today paired with an otherworldly and nostalgic video directed by Flatspot. The anthemic “Recognize Me” was produced by Blaney and Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Snail Mail).
Speaking about the new song and the accompanying video, Blaney reflects, “‘Recognize Me’ is the bedroom hairbrush anthem my 16-year-old self needed more than anything. I felt it in the moment the song came out of me, cause that’s who it felt like was talking. Was very reactive in that moment and pubescent, and allowing myself to be. Allowing myself to expel myself not just from my situation, but from myself, in order to make room for the new.
The video leans into this. I am in 3 different physical states — my bedroom, my planet, my galaxy. All bring a sense of grounded peace to me. All are the same place. In it is the comfort and catharsis I feel within the walls of my own world. A room with a door that closes.”
Blaney describes A Room With A Door That Closes as “a love letter to her blue,” an emotional state that she defines as “a kinetic, intense, and dark energy that needs to be expressed as soon as it is felt.” The eleven songs on the album span radioactive kiss offs, sorrowful meditations on yearning, and gossamer reveries about self image. The music has a fittingly tumultuous, intricate sound: 1960s soul samples melt into warm drum n bass percussion, blips of glitch ping pong against grating synth, and Blaney’s vocals range from searing punk exclamations to gentle, exploratory croons. It’s the sound of a singer peering deeply within herself and presenting the world with everything she finds, unadulterated, in real time.
Blaney self-produced the new project along with a tight team of three producers: Emerson Fossett, Harlan Steed (Show Me The Body), and Alex Farrar. Blaney had just started playing guitar and producing around the time she began writing the songs that would become the album. Being new to both producing and guitar playing opened up a sense of exploration and freedom for her. She felt emboldened to employ more adventurous riffs and unconventional song arrangements when she was writing.
A Room With A Door That Closes is a collection of songs that rigorously pursue honesty, that present feelings as they arise without rushing to categorize them or explain them away. In the process of understanding her rage or discomfort, Blaney often lands on a sense of pride and assurance, but that’s never the ultimate goal. She eschews the easy comfort of neat resolution for the excitement of ongoing discovery. The album is an exercise in unfiltered self-expression, and a celebration of life at its messiest.
Since 2019, Blaney has been releasing music lacquered with emotion. 2021 saw the release of her album 3, which meditated on neo-soul and R&B sonics. With her new material, Blaney fully dives into her unsavory feelings of anxiety and unease, creating a tumultuous and intricate sound where drum n bass weaves with droning guitars, blips of glitch ping pong against grating synth, and Blaney’s vocals range from searing punk exclamations to gentle, exploratory croons.
Maiya Blaney
A Room With A Door That Closes
June 13, 2025
Lex Records
1. I’ll Be With You
2. Left
3. Carmen Electra
4. IDR
5. Fumbled
6 “Affirmatively”
7. Honey I
8. Could You
9. Recognize Me
10. “Affirmatively” (Part II)
11. And
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