Maryse Smith - 635

​Maryse Smith

635
self-released; 2025

By Matt Jensen
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Maryse Smith is an artist who recently released "635." Recorded over a fleeting three-day session in Burlington, Vermont, just before the 2024 total solar eclipse, “635” emerges from the haze of a short-lived, loosely knit trio—an ostensibly under-rehearsed constellation of players whose chemistry feels less deliberate than divined.

​Produced by Benny Yurco at Little Jamaica Studios, the track is part of a larger collection steeped in impermanence: a document of trying again, of tracing the tangled circuitry of life as it doubles back on itself, of aging, shifting, and remaining stubbornly the same.

“635” is the kind of song that gets under your skin before you realize it. There’s an immediate charm to its gentle sway—an off-kilter sweetness that recalls the understated gravity of Big Thief or the diary-like candor of Frankie Cosmos. It’s an unassuming track, but the mood is quietly infectious: slightly askew, a little melancholic, but carried by a warm undercurrent of hope.

Every element falls into place with a natural ease, giving the song a lived-in brightness, like a half-remembered day that still somehow matters. There’s a looseness to the performance that never drifts into sloppiness, a kind of raw clarity that makes the emotions feel raw, organic and realized. It’s the sound of a moment that wasn’t supposed to last, somehow echoing long after it’s gone.

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