Album Review: Maya de Vitry’s ‘All My Faith’
On ‘All My Faith,’ her fifth full-length album, Maya de Vitry joyously embraces the beauty of life and love, celebrating the daily moments that reveal to us the swaying rhythms of our lives. Every song on the album radiates a luminous elation that reflects a warm and intimate recording process and gives us the feeling that we’re sitting in the studio with de Vitry and the band.
Bright, swaggering guitar chords propel the rollicking title track as it swerves from the
song’s opening sedate folk rhythms and races headlong into a blend of Southern rock and Stones-
like soul as Jo Schornikow’s keys lead the swelling chorus of sound at the song’s end. Schornikow’s gamboling piano –which sonically resembles Nicky Hopkins playing on ‘Exile on Main St.’– and Ethan Ballinger’s fiery licks weave around and under each other, providing the texture that flows beneath de Vitry’s soaring vocals.
Layers of aching pedal steel, playing call and response with guitars and keys, lie beneath the ethereal “Coin in Your Soul,” an atmospheric ode to the riches we share with each other in a relationship: “But there are riches here between us deep inside the soul / They must be shared if they are to be found.”
On the funky country folk ballad “Bachelorette Lessons,” de Vitry takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the proliferation of bachelorette parties in Nashville and the kindness and love that sometimes peeks
through the drunken fog shrouding the aftermath of the parties. Walking through the airport, she
observes one woman helping out another and she reflects, “I thought what if we talked to each
other like that all around this country / If we could hold a little something for somebody who is
strugglin’.”
Launching into the sonic stratosphere, the minor chord “Adaptation” gallops into an
echoing psychedelia and reminding us that sometimes we can get so good at adapting to a
situation that we lose ourselves.
The gorgeous country soul “Nobody Else,” with its mournful pedal steel playing around an aching B3, reflects on the ragged ways we live and love, while on the heartful “Traveller” de Vitry celebrates her beloved grandmother by quoting her words: “You’ll find all that/ you need just by living.”
The album closes with the spaciously unfurling “No Time to Rush,” a paean to embracing every moment of our lives.
‘All My Faith’ showcases the multi-faceted riches of de Vitry’s lyrical and musical vision
and the brilliance of her insights into human nature.
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- Maya de Vitry’s ‘All My Faith’ comes out 7/24/26
- Official website
- Bandcamp
