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Published on 2026-05-01
Energized by the spontaneity of live performance and a revelatory pursuit of truth in her lyric writing, Maya de Vitry returns with her fifth full-length album, All My Faith. Prioritizing presence and grit over studio polish, she sounds joyously at home in the alt-country and indie-folk realms.
Recorded and mixed by five-time Grammy Award-winning engineer Sean Sullivan and self-produced by de Vitry, All My Faith is a buoyant gathering of songs brought to life by a cast of her closest collaborators. The album will be released on de Vitry’s own Mad Maker Studio label on July 24.
From canyons to kitchens, from cold lakes to highway truck stops, the songs form a vibrant collage of joy, sorrow, and gut-wrenching honesty. Whether spinning an inspirational tale about hungover bachelorettes at the Nashville airport or exploring the prison of our own adaptations, de Vitry brings a grounded confidence and quiet charisma rooted in her belief in the power of song to change us.
All My Faith consists of 10 original songs written over the past year. Forgoing the technology often used to “perfect” studio recordings, de Vitry instead trusted the moment-to-moment musical conversations of the players around her.
“When the band realized that I was planning to do no edits whatsoever on these tracks, the level of commitment from everyone just soared. It was a really exciting atmosphere in the studio,” de Vitry recalls.
For pedal steel and guitar, she enlisted Spencer Cullum and Ethan Ballinger (both members of Miranda Lambert’s touring band), alongside Jo Schornikow of Phosphorescent on keys. They are joined by frequent members of de Vitry’s live band: Ethan Jodziewicz on bass, Dominic Billett on drums, and Shelby Means and Joel Timmons on harmony vocals.
The band’s playing is responsive, uninhibited, and emotionally spot on. True to de Vitry’s vision, everything heard on the record was captured in real time over three days at The Tractor Shed in Goodlettsville, TN, from November 23 to 25, 2025.
A profound connection to nature runs throughout the record—not as a passing metaphor, but as an elemental and transformative force shaping both her songwriting and artistic perspective. At its heart, the album reflects on the ways human beings care for one another and the healing that emerges from our relationships—with each other and with the natural world.
There is also a throughline of confronting the difficult parts of human relationships, naming pain with honesty rather than avoiding it.
“Whether addressing others or some version of herself, de Vitry’s lyrics explore individual choices,” wrote Nancy Posey in No Depression. “Choosing to remain present long enough to learn something about living or loving, de Vitry embraces her agency.”
Justin Hiltner wrote in Rolling Stone how Maya’s instinct “to trust the songs, to step aside and let them do their own talking, is key to de Vitry’s renewed energy as a solo performer.”
With her armor fading and her fire burning from within, “Confidence of the Sun” is bold and bright. The album’s first single is one of several songs written at Blue Rock Artist Ranch & Studio in Wimberley, Texas, where she was gifted a weeklong songwriting residency in April 2025.
Maya says, “The Blue Rock Artist residency was very nourishing and fruitful for me. At the time, I was on the heels of producing four albums in a row for other artists, all while trying to keep momentum in my solo touring while trying to break out of certain habits and patterns that still haunted me from my earliest days of touring in The Stray Birds. I was exhausted and feeling quite depleted.
But the residency was a perfectly timed chance for me to truly slow down and listen to my own heartbeat again as a writer and artist. I also had a chance to reflect on my journey in music so far. I hope that the peace, belonging, and perspective I felt during that retreat can be felt in ‘Confidence of the Sun.’ I love the vocal arrangement, too, how we sing in unison until the end of the song, where it splits into 3-part harmony.”
