Maria Taylor Releases Story’s End, Her First Album in 7 Years, via Conor Oberst’s Million Stars Records
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“Spellbinding” - No Depression
"...a beautiful, affecting album that you’ll keep coming back to” - Glide Magazine
“...an intensely personal album molded by heartbreak, resilience, and rediscovery.” - Atwood Magazine
Today, the Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Maria Taylor released, Story’s End, her first first length album release in 7 years out now on Conor Oberst’s Million Stars Records. The 10-song collection unfolds like a hazy, cinematic narrative—songs acting as chapters that trace love, loss, fracture, and the quiet search for solace in the aftermath of personal upheaval.
“These songs have a personal, yet universal, narrative of loss, surrender, transformation, and growth,” Taylor explains. This record is about a divorce; it’s about losing a friend I thought I would have forever; it’s about my love for this life; it’s about my love for my kids; it’s about mistakes and desire, about growing older and stronger; it’s about acceptance. It took me five years to complete Story’s End – the longest I’ve ever spent on a single album. The story was still unfolding.”
This morning, the album was featured on NPR Music’s New Music Friday podcast highlighting the best albums released today. Atwood Magazine interviewed Taylor earlier this week, calling the record "the work of an artist who’s shed layers – both willingly and otherwise – and emerged with a more vivid understanding of herself.” No Depression reviewed the album and proclaimed, "Mixing the bitter and the sweet, Maria Taylor’s compassionate honesty can help heal the spirit” while Glide Magazine declared it’s "a cinematic LP that is as captivating as it is intricately delicate.”
Last month, Taylor released “Sorry I Was Yours” featuring Conor Oberst that was praised by BrooklynVegan, Stereogum, and The New York Times, who called it “a bittersweet reminiscence about a long-ago romance, recalling both thrills and heartache and ending in apologies.”
Taylor will celebrate the album’s release with upcoming concerts in South Pasadena, New York, Seattle and Portland. Find a full list of tour dates below or visit her website.
Tour Dates:
4/10: South Pasadena, CA – Sid The Cat Auditorium
4/15: New York, NY – Night Club 101
4/28: Seattle, WA – Undertow Show
4/29: Portland, OR – Undertow Show
Story’s End tracklist:
01) Story’s End
02) Shades of Blue
03) Sorry I Was Yours (feat. Conor Oberst)
04) Tricky
05) Never Thought I’d Feel New
06) Powerlines
07) Nathaniel
08) Be Careful What You Want
09) Everything Is Fine (My Loves)
10) Change Is Coming Soon (Green Butterfly Sequel)
Credit: Liz Bretz
