Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer more eaze (the moniker of Brooklyn-based artist mari rubio) has unveiled “the producer,” a raw and strikingly honest single from her upcoming album, sentence structure in the country, arriving March 20th.
The track marks a departure from rubio’s signature sound, trading her usual intricate processing and Autotune for a voice that is notably bare and vulnerable. This vocal intimacy is cradled by an arrangement that feels both fragile and increasingly lush, weaving together drum machines, emotive strings, and varied guitar flourishes.
On the track’s sense of vulnerability and its central place within the record, rubio elaborates:
“To me, this is the most vulnerable track on the record and as I thought about how so much of production and session work involves some sort of sublimation of self in a vulnerable way, I decided to highlight elements of this with the fragility of the arrangement and production here. It’s a rare autotune-free more eaze track which I did deliberately to force myself to think about arranging and playing around my vocals differently. I let my friends and frequent collaborators Alice and Jade have a lot of free reign over what they added to the track. I kept the big arrangement moments I added sparse so that they’d have to play around the gaps in the song.”
sentence structure in the country promises to be a definitive statement of rubio’s skill. A “textural marvel,” the album balances ethereal electronics with loamy acoustics, creating a mosaic of sound that feels like a fully realised ecosystem. Fans can catch more eaze live for an album release show at TV Eye in NYC on April 15th.
more eaze tour dates
Mar. 3 – New York City, NY – Singers (Duo w/ Gabby Fluke Mogul)
Apr. 15 – Queens, NY – TV Eye (sentence structure in the country album release show
Pre-Order the album via Thrill Jockey | Bandcamp (out March 20th)