Marie-Ann Hedonia continues to carve a singular path with her latest release, "Eve Had the Metallic Shine of Summer," accompanied by a music video. The track offers a first glimpse into "Eclipse," her upcoming full-length project. Divided into two EPs—"Solar Eclipse" and "Lunar Eclipse." With releases across vinyl, cassette, CD, and streaming platforms, “Eclipse” is set to be both a conceptual statement and a tactile experience, grounding Hedonia’s visceral world in every format imaginable.
The single serves as a haunting metaphor for abandonment, self-erasure, and the warped inner landscapes shaped by toxic love. In the music video, Marie appears alongside a mannequin that she drags and interacts with in various settings, almost as if it were alive.
The song itself is tense, powerful, and at times even uncomfortable, yet all of it is fully intentional. It vividly captures a feeling and connects the listener to shadows they may not have been aware of. Like all great music, “Eve Had the Metallic Shine of Summer” is art made with synthesizers, meant to dig into the wound and stir it without mercy or anesthesia.
Breaking taboos and tackling heavy themes in a raw, dramatic, and theatrical yet deeply real way is nothing new for the Baltimore-based synth player and composer. She first discovered synthesizers while trying to bend notes and manipulate sounds on an upright piano to create music that pierced the soul, even if that meant making others uncomfortable. That’s how she began to grow as a reference figure in the alternative scene, blending bold elements of techno, synth pop, dark ambient, jazz, and more.
With every release, Hedonia has made it clear that she isn’t looking for easy acceptance. Quite the opposite; each track invites listeners to move through discomfort, confront what we don’t want to see, and reconstruct ourselves through distortion. “You take off the outer layer, and you get to rebuild the skeleton of the sound,” she once said, and she applies this idea not only to music but also to the way she narrates pain and human contradiction.
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Since her debut album “The Inevitable Collapse” (2021), Hedonia has built an ever-evolving catalog with increasingly refined production. Her foray into jazz alongside Jeremy Pelt on the acclaimed “Woven” (2025) also showcased her ability to push creative boundaries and leave her mark on the alternative scene.
From humble beginnings with a second-hand microKORG to building a vast modular universe, Marie-Ann Hedonia continues to prove that her true language is boundless experimentation.
With Eclipse, Marie-Ann Hedonia opens a new chapter, inviting a circle of bold female collaborators whose vocals thread through the project with haunting sensuality and a quiet intensity. Their presence deepens the album’s emotional terrain, layered across industrial beats, synthetic textures, and sweeping, cinematic soundscapes.
With an aesthetic that leans toward industrial and experimental electronic, and a message that directly targets the wound of dependency and self-loss, Marie-Ann Hedonia intends to lead us on a journey into the darkest and most honest corners of our psyche, bathing us in a harsh but always necessary kind of truth.
