Maryze released Shy Prty Grl today, April 16, the latest single ahead of their next album.
Produced by Skyler Cocco, the track leans into a late-night, overstimulated kind of sound. The synths come in sharp and slightly off, guitars blur into the background, and the beat just keeps pushing forward without really opening up. It feels closer to being stuck in a room than being pulled onto a dancefloor, everything pressing in at once.
Maryze keeps the vocal right in the middle of that. It doesn’t try to rise above the track or cut through it cleanly, it just sits there, steady, while things shift around it. As the song builds, more layers start to creep in, but nothing quite resolves, it just gets louder, more crowded.
The lyrics stay close to that same tension. The pull toward attention, the instinct to disappear as soon as it lands. Maryze draws directly from their time playing shows and DJing in Los Angeles, where the pressure to be “on” doesn’t switch off when the set ends. It carries into the spaces in between, the conversations, the rooms you don’t really want to be in but stay in anyway.
“We wanted the track to feel like it was sweeping you into a nightmare party,” they said. “Surrounded by screaming strangers, desperately trying to find your friends when you just want to go home.” The way the track builds follows that idea, not in a straight line, more like everything closing in at once.
Listen below:
Maryze has been moving between Montreal and Los Angeles over the past few years, playing shows across both scenes while releasing singles leading into a second album. They played a release show in LA on April 15 and are set to return to Montreal for Santa Teresa Festival on May 10.
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