Maria BC

"Maria BC is a classically trained vocalist, a dexterous guitarist, and a songwriter with an innate gift for vast, stately melodies, but the defining strength of their music is the mood: an overarching melancholy that shadows everything like heavy storm clouds." —Pitchfork Hyaline, was a 2022 ambient-folk highlight. It found the Oakland, CA-based artist Maria BC (they/them) crafting haunting tracks that played like they were beamed from the heart of some mystical, cobwebbed attic. On Spike Field, their Sacred Bones debut, strings, plucked guitar and buzzing swells accompany their classically-trained mezzo-soprano voice soaking their arrangements in a denser and more kaleidoscopic way than any of their previous work. Maria BC describes it as “filling out the sonic space,” as Spike Field builds on the intimacy of Hyaline through liberating instrumental embellishments.