Melbourne-based artist Mareya’s skills lie across the music spectrum. As an impressive producer, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist, she’s an artist with the ability to top the charts, receiving further support from Apple editorials to cement her rising star position. In her music, Mareya is unapologetic, speaking to mental health, BIPOC rights and the dismantling of misogyny.
For her latest single, Mareya collaborates both with her partner and fellow artist Younique as well as renowned saxophone extraordinaire Keidan Morley. The result is ‘Need You Now’ a fierce alt-pop banger, the track feeling at home as a striking, emotional composition and a future club classic. Driven forward by plucky instrumentation and punchy kick drums, the vocals glimmer with passion, the production giving them an added sparkle through airy vocalisations and pulsing harmonies.
The saxophone of Keidan Morley is filled with energising melodies, his solos carrying the track to new heights with infectiousness and depth. The performance is no throwaway addition, but an essential piece of the track’s success.
“The work is quite unique with the lyrics exposing a personal vulnerability insofar as they seek to return to a deeper sense of self after a depressive episode caused a disconnect with that,” Mareya shares. “But then it’s quite particular in how the minor key and the beats juxtapose this yearning with such resolution and strength … all toward a climax which is released via an epic saxophone solo of pent-up emotions!”
Younique continues, “I have always wanted to make a record that has HUGE sax appeal, and this one fulfilled that craving. I’ve also been a producer/ engineer for multiple artists for their sound and their music so it was brilliant to be able to represent my own sound on this track, alongside my partner and to creatively direct the whole, super fun process to achieve what is now ‘our’ own sound.”