🏠 Portland, OR Offering a razor’s edge look at desire within the framework of a long-term relationship, MAITA's new record 'want' is a stark, arresting image of a place lost in time, set against the backdrop of a dive bar fever dream. The album is full of high highs and low lows – the debut single “girl at the bar” offers a moody rumination on the need to be an object of lust, whereas the follow-up “i used to feel different” delivers a breezy mix of nostalgia and desire. The latest single “breakup song x3,” traces the fractures of an on-again, off-again relationship, detailing a series of breakups that leave Maita-Keppeler unable to remember what she wanted from the relationship in the first place. “This album feels like the most cohesive of any batch of songs that I'd written, because the slate was pretty blank in terms of what was going on around me,” she recalls. “Sometimes just being true to your own desires means not everyone is happy. If the album is about want, and it's about desire, it’s also about being in a place where you’re like, ‘Yes, I am going to try to get what I want and do what I want. And I’m going to do it for me.’” 'want' follows the band’s acclaimed releases, 2020’s Best Wishes and 2022’s I Just Want To Be Wild For You, which received praise from NPR Music, FLOOD, Billboard, Line Of Best Fit, SPIN and more. MAITA has toured across the US and Europe, garnered featured slots at SXSW and Treefort, and opened for the likes of Mirah, Blind Pilot, Horse Feathers and Typhoon.