Rising songstress Maeve Steele has recently released her dreamy new single, “Tycho,” — inspired by the 108 million year old crater of the same name. Marked as one of the clearest craters that can be seen from Earth, Steele pushed to deliver that same sense of clarity within her new track. After becoming completely captivated by the crater’s existence, Maeve’s new discovery became the focus of misplaced jealousy — how easy a life it is for something so well known and hauntingly beautiful to exist where time plays no factor for the mass. Yet, while many of us long for endless time, too often we overlook how lonely a timeless existence can be.

“To me, this song is really a deep breath. I wrote it in the context of a lullaby, and there’s something about zooming out and looking to the sky that feels really calming,” shares Steele. “It’s reassuring to remember how small we are right before bed. I’ve always had trouble falling asleep, so this song is what I try to thing about when I’m struggling late at night.”

Lined with a soft melody, Maeve’s vocals dance across a hushed futuristic beat. Cooing, “He’s not like the rest of us, he doesn’t have to run from time,” Steele brings a humanist touch to an object presented by brilliant minds as nothing more than a scientific phenomenon. While some would find being jealous of a thing ‘silly’ or ‘bizarre’ — it’s not only fairly common, but completely understandable. How often do people daydream of what life would be like if they were nothing but a simple house-cat? Lying in the sun all day, napping for hours on end, no sense of bills or debt. Maeve brings listeners back to reality with, “I’m repeating that we’ll be fine” — though we live in a lifetime where time is often of the essence, it’s ok and perhaps not always the worst thing in the world.

“Tycho” comes as the follow up to Steele’s previously released track “Shimmer” — a synth-pop bop that immediately gets you moving. Helping deliver Steele’s lyrics of growth, change, and self discovery is producer Brian Malouf [Michael Jackson, Madonna]. Through both tracks it becomes obvious that Maeve draws heavy influence from the disco era, presenting it with a modern day twist and an Americana twang.

Thriving on her storytelling nature, Maeve found herself not like others within the music industry. “I was 19 when I started doing these songwriter rounds in Nashville, and something clicked where I realized I didn’t want to just churn out songs and then give them away,” she explains. “I realized that I needed to see my songs all the way through, that I needed to be an artist rather than just a songwriter.” While other artists are often seen as ‘control freaks’ due to them demandimg creative control after giving up so much of it — Maeve works to never risk being labeled as such. Determined to have her hands heavily involved in her craft from start to finish, Maeve Steele is one artist who will make it to the top on her own terms.

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