Berklee-educated Jordan Maye is helping keep Boston rock alive and well, from both near and afar. The student, musician (whose single “Hush” we shared earlier this year), and Atlanta native shared her debut full-length record, Creation of Jordan Maye, on Friday (August 23), an eight-song hero’s-journey-style musical feat she’s achieved at just the age of 21.
Maye’s album is as personal as it is technically deft. Nearly operatic in sound, Maye puts her music education to good use as she creates soundscapes through which she shares literary tales from her life.
Single “Embers Of The Learning Man” is a percussive, in-the-round folk tale of a song, while album opener “Deranged” feels operatic and album closer “Do You Really Care” boasts that classic anthemic stadium rock sound. “Walking on Water” stands out as among the most feel-good tracks on Creation of Jordan Maye, asserting invincibility in light of the impossible.
While the titular reference seems biblically exaggerated, Maye reveals that the song comes from a very literal experience. “I was back at Berklee,” she says, “and had found my group of friends. One day we found this precarious, frozen river. It was scary, but I ran across it. I felt unbeatable.”
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