Indie favourite Maria Kelly announces her second album Waiting Room, out February 28 via VETA Records, with her shimmering new single ‘When I’m Angry’. A self-admitted people pleaser, ‘When I’m Angry’ sees Maria finally tapping into the fury that she often finds difficult to express:
“I’m someone who tends to burst into tears when I feel angry. It’s such a frustrating reaction, because it often makes me unable to speak up for myself in the moments I need to. This song is about the resentment that comes with letting others walk all over you. Though, it’s not really about the other person as much as it’s about claiming back your voice as your own.”
Waiting Room is both a very real place, as Maria found herself stuck in sterile clinics hoping for answers to inscrutable chronic pain, and a dream-like, surreal space representing her own inner world: “This album is an exploration of the roadblocks, both internally and externally, that keep us feeling powerless and taking away our agency,” Maria explains. Beyond Ireland’s oblique quagmire of a health system, Maria ruminates on the housing crisis, societal expectations, faded friendships, and more—all through a personal lens, but communicated with a poetic universality as only a double Aquarius can.”
Waiting Room:
- Like A Wave
- Waiting Room
- Drive
- Something Better
- Nearly Thirty
- Slump
- Rearview Mirror
- His Parents’ House
- When I’m Angry
- Coming to Kill
- Appointments
