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Jan 29, 2025 By Caleb Campbell Photography by Meredith James

Portland-based indie singer/songwriter Maria DeHart has gone through a series of creative shifts over the past few years, beginning first as an acoustic singer/songwriter before moving towards the intimacy of bedroom pop loop pedal experiments and, most recently, the collaborative creative chemistry of a full band. She adopted a new moniker, Myriads, shortly before releasing the band’s debut EP, 2023’s Win Some, Lose Everyone. Last year, the band returned with a new single, “17,” and later this year they are set to share their new EP, Find Ourselves Again.

The Find Ourselves Again EP is the band’s first studio-recorded release and finds them lacing their layered dream pop atmospherics with swirling emo and folk influences. Today, they’re back with another new single, “Spider,” premiering early with Under the Radar.

With “Spider” the band offers a dreamy chronicle of winter blues, shifting gears between lilting bedroom folk acoustic tones and propulsive indie rock. The results are light yet bittersweet, steeped in jangly guitars, twinkling melodic accents, and plaintive longing. DeHart’s vocal melodies can feel aimless and dejected in one moment and infectious in the next. The band deftly balances these tones before pulling back in the track’s final moments, with the lyrics drifting gently towards an uncertain and unsettled ending: “I see a cut of clear sky and I sprint out the house / I research what the rent’s like in another town / I call you up to ask how close you are now / Can’t stand another minute of this silent sound.”

DeHart says of the track, “‘Spider’ is one of those songs that sounds happy but is actually pretty sad. Under the driving pop drum beat, chorus-soaked electric guitar, and even a kids’ xylophone accompanying the melody, there lie lyrics about seasonal depression, the trappings of social media, and burnout. One of the lines is: ‘I’m terrified of my phone and the flashing screen / No reason to get out bed, can you show me?’ which I think is a sentiment a lot of people I know right now can relate to. What’s next in this unpredictable world we’re in? How am I supposed to find the motivation to do everything I am supposed to do, or expected to do? Under the weight of hopelessness, it’s often easier to just lay down in bed, keep scrolling, and try not to think.”

Check out the song below, out everywhere tomorrow. The Find Ourselves Again EP is due out later this year.