Energized by the spontaneity of live performance and a revelatory pursuit of truth in her lyric writing, Maya de Vitry returns with her fifth full-length album, All My Faith (due out July 24th). Prioritizing presence and grit over studio polish, she sounds joyously at home in the alt-country and indie-folk realms.
From canyons to kitchens, from cold lakes to highway truck stops, the songs form a vibrant collage of joy, sorrow, and gut-wrenching honesty. Whether spinning an inspirational tale about hungover bachelorettes at the Nashville airport or exploring the prison of our own adaptations, de Vitry brings a grounded confidence and quiet charisma rooted in her belief in the power of song to change us.
The band’s playing is responsive, uninhibited, and emotionally spot on. Recorded and mixed by 5-time Grammy Award-winning engineer Sean Sullivan and self-produced by de Vitry, All My Faith is a buoyant gathering of road-tested songs brought to life by a cast of her closest confidantes and collaborators. For pedal steel and guitar, she enlisted Spencer Cullum and Ethan Ballinger (both members of Miranda Lambert’s touring band), alongside Jo Schornikow (of alt-country/indie band Phosphorescent) on keys. They are joined by frequent members of de Vitry’s live band: Ethan Jodziewicz on bass, Dominic Billett on drums, and Shelby Means and Joel Timmons on harmony vocals.
At its heart, the album reflects on the ways human beings choose to care for one another in myriad forms and on the generative healing and wisdom that emerge from our relationships—with each other and with the natural world. These 10 songs are the intoxicating sound of faith in action—a bandleader fully trusting in her life experiences, her craft, her collaborators, and the moment. It captures the presence she has been cultivating in her live shows, and hearing it magnified on record is its own revelation.
Today, Glide is excite to offer an exclusive premiere of the album’s opener and title track “All My Faith,” a joyful surrender to time, love, and the unknown. Blending the sunny and thoughtful folk of the 1970s with a pedal steel and piano-laden alt-country tune, the song is radiants energy and momentum. While de Vitry’s gorgeously powerful vocals stay front and center, the band is fully locked in to a sound that veers into soulful rock and roll territory. Ultimately, it marks another exciting chapter for an artist who continues to grow and evolve her musical talents. If the rest of the album is as good as “All My Faith,” we may be looking at one of the strongest releases this year.
Maya de Vitry describes the inspiration behind the tune:
“This track feels like we’re showing our cards as a band — if you listen all the way to the end, you can definitely tell this was recorded live, with no edits, just a band jamming together! That’s the essence of this whole record. The line in the chorus, ‘I wanna touch time with all my faith,’ has a lot of meanings for me. And one of those meanings is actually the way it feels to play music with other people. To trust each other to listen, and to respond to each other. For me, it’s also about my faith in relationships, my faith in the things that are revealed to us only through sharing time and trust with another person. Or a relationship with nature, with a garden… faith shows up in so many forms in my life.”
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