“I’m so blissful to be residence, I’m so blissful to be in New York!” Maya Hawke says into the microphone whereas going through a sold-out crowd on the Music Corridor of Williamsburg. “A few of you I do know, a few of you I don’t however you’re all my New York Metropolis household.” That household consists of followers which have been queuing all day to catch Hawke’s homecoming present. Sporting a velvet coat and black mesh costume, she effortlessly glides into ‘Bloomed Into Blue,’ softly singing “As a babbling child / they blessed her a bastard start” whereas the group gently sways alongside.
Hawke’s trance-like voice booms by the venue as she dives into the following few songs. Each has an identical melody and supply as they move into one another. At one level within the evening, breaking apart her sluggish ballads, she brings out a particular visitor. It’s not her father, Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, who occurs to be on the balcony cheering on Stranger Issues star with the world’s greatest smile on his face, it’s singer-songwriter Jesse Harris. He begins to strum the opening chords of ‘Beneficiant Coronary heart,’ a Norah Jones-eque tune with the lyrics “I’ve nothing to say anymore / Love is nothing / I’m yours” and has the group singing alongside.
“Is anybody in highschool?” asks Hawke, and roughly a fourth of the group are cheering and elevating their arms. “You guys understand it sucks,” she says as she begins to introduce ‘Mermaid Bar’, a track she wrote about her adolescent expertise. Because the track performs, the pit turns into a sea of glimmering lights with everybody within the entrance row beaming their flashlights and blowing cleaning soap bubbles from the bottles they delivered to the gig.
The vitality of the evening strikes ahead at a sluggish tempo, however begins to choose up throughout Hawke’s most well-known tracks, ‘Thérèse’ and ‘Candy Tooth’. Followers go wild singing each songs phrase for phrase, reciting lyrics “Bleeding, bringing in a brand new yr’s mess” and “I’m grateful for every part you set me by / It’s the one motive I’m any good to speak to.”
She walks off stage and the booming chants of her identify deliver her, her band and Jesse Harris again for an encore. They play Hawke’s first-ever single ‘To Love A Boy’ and the room is screaming the track again to her. To wrap up the homecoming present, a canopy of Florida Georgia Line’s ‘Filth’ is sung after Hawke’s apology for deciding to finish on “a track you might hate however we like to play.” Pink furry cowboy hat on, she has a blast on stage tearing it up earlier than heading again into the town she calls residence.
Maya Hawke performed:
‘Backup Plan’
‘Bloomed Into Blue’
‘Hiatus’
‘Loopy Child’
‘Luna Moth’
‘Into My Arms’ (Nick Cave & The Dangerous Seeds cowl)
‘Beneficiant Coronary heart'(with Jesse Harris)
‘By Myself’
‘Mermaid Bar’
‘Lacking Out’
‘I Wanna Be Sedated'(Ramones cowl)
‘South Elroy’
‘Thérèse’
‘Freezing’
‘Candy Tooth’
‘Filth’ (Florida Georgia Line cowl)
