MAEVE & QUINN – ANOTHER DOOR
A SPILL EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE
maeve & quinn’s first full-length album, Another Door, is an affirmation of possibilities, especially when the future feels unclear. Anchored in the blood harmonies, lyrical melodies, and dynamic interplay of multi-instrumentalists Maris and Bryce O’Tierney (classically trained on guitar, voice, violin, piano), the album is an intimate conversation between lifelong friends – something these Alaskan twin sisters know well. Written and recorded in Chicago during the height of the pandemic, Another Door is an imaginative and genre-bending collection of alt rock-pop-folk songs that occupies its own singular sound.
The album has a cumulative effect – each song builds its own landscape, and the throughline is a feeling of openness evocative of the sisters’ upbringing in the mountainous environment of Alaska. The free, live quality of improvisation also makes its way into maeve & quinn’s songwriting, an extension of the duo’s relationship as twin sisters – their songs are fluid in memory between past and present, layered in perspective. Chicago stand-outs Matt Ulery (bass) and Quin Kirchner (drums) provide a dynamic rhythm section that elevates the arc of the album, which was recorded and mixed by Nick Broste, and mastered by Justin Perkins.
There’s a sense of inquiry, revealing, and ultimately self-embrace throughout the album. The more you listen to the LP, the more layers you’ll hear. Lead single “Jeweler’s Row” speaks to deep identification found in a new friendship [“…you won’t find some great dividing line”], holding and being held in one’s fullness of experience, especially at the lowest points -“…you told me sadness is a fine way to be.” The voices, guitar, violin, and keys harmonize in a way that seems familiar yet takes you to a new place. The track “I Am Her” is a search for oneself in the mirror when depression skews the view [“what did you say your name was?..you look a lot like what someone I used to know”], eventually reaching an affirming recognition.
Another Door bridges the closest distance to the farthest, as the sisters, very much in sync, move between inner and outer emotional spaces. Closing track “Nothing In Mind” contemplates and ultimately empowers a sense of self amidst an increasingly cluttered and detached feeling society, as the sisters sing almost in mantra, “I’m not afraid to be weightless, and faceless, and stateless, up here on my own.”
maeve & quinn
Another Door
(Independent)
Release Date: September 8, 2023
Another Door Track Listing
- Jeweler’s Row
- Stuck Inside
- I Know I Will
- Chicago
- 36 Years
- I am Her
- Naming Them
- Nothing In Mind
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