Mayo-born Irish indie artist Maria Kelly returns with Drive, her first single since releasing her debut album The Sum of the In-Between in 2021.
Her new song features in the trailer for the recently released film Ezra, starring Robert De Niro, Bobby Cannavale, Rose Byrne and Whoopi Goldberg.
Westport-born Maria writes her songs around feelings, and has crafted her own world of delicately woven indie-folk with a sincerity that cuts to the bone, matched by a voice that can be haunting and dramatic.
Drive is about longing for closure, and grappling with the reality that it may never come. It’s a rose-tinted story of ‘what-ifs’, fuelled by the desire for forgiveness and the need for permission to finally move on.
To celebrate the release of Drive, Maria is hosting a Night of New Things at Bello Bar in Dublin on Thursday, 6th June. She will support Ezra Williams at the Róisín Dubh in Galway on 17th July.
Maria says of her track: “I wrote Drive as a sort of comforting daydream as I looked back on my past relationships. I’ve always struggled with the fact that people who once meant so much to you can suddenly become a stranger again. Drive is a yearning to go find them now, explain, and have them ease the guilt – and an attempt at accepting that it won’t ever happen.”
Produced by her creative-collaborator Matt Harris (Veta, HAVVK), and mixed and mastered by Rocky O’Reilly (Start Together, Oppenheimer), the single is now available on the usual digital platforms.
