{"id":1745937,"date":"2026-01-08T15:10:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1745937"},"modified":"2026-01-08T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:10:57","slug":"maria-bc-preps-new-album-marathon-shares-title-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1745937","title":{"rendered":"Maria BC Preps New Album Marathon, Shares Title Track"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maria BC Preps New Album Marathon<\/em>, Shares Title Track<\/h1>\n
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The lead single, about feeling nostalgia for a gas station, is inspired by the \u201csatanic poetry\u201d of advertising<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Jazz Monroe<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Maria BC has lined up a new album, Marathon<\/em>. The Oakland musician will release their Spike Field<\/em> follow-up on February 27, via Sacred Bones. Watch F. Saber Sutphin\u2019s video for the title track\u2014a song of conflicted nostalgia for Marathon gas stations\u2014below.<\/p>\n

Maria BC says of the new song in a press release:<\/p>\n

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There was a Marathon gas station at the end of the street I lived on as a kid. Its big, glowing sign was a landmark for me\u2014when I could see it from the window of my mom\u2019s car, I knew we were about to be home. Its iconic \u2018M\u2019\u2014on the rare occasion I encounter one these days\u2014still brings up that old feeling, the familiarity of homecoming, and a twinge of nostalgia. There\u2019s something perverse about this, I think. The oil company\u2019s branding is, or at least was, exceptionally patriotic, what with its red, white and blue color scheme and idealized Midwestern imagery, all dusty roads, cowboys and wild horses that harken the brand\u2019s slogan, \u2018Fueling the American Spirit.\u2019 I once heard someone refer to advertising as \u2018satanic poetry\u2019\u2014I have to agree. That this logo, even with all the evil it connotes, can invoke nostalgia\u2014can be a beacon\u2014is very sinister to me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They add, of the album, \u201cI decided to spend less time on production and recording and more time on songwriting. The result, I think, is more thematically consistent, lyrically speaking, and more concise\u2026 I set out to make something more dynamic and varied.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Marathon<\/em>:<\/p>\n

01 Marathon
02 As the Earth Turns
03 Peacemaking
04 Safety
05 Rare
06 Port Authority
07 The Sound
08 Sabotage
09 June
10 Night & Day
11 May This Rain
12 Channels
13 Miami<\/p>\n

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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/media.pitchfork.com\/photos\/695fa8e2f59ae138f39c69df\/16:9\/w_1280,c_limit\/maria-bc-new-album-song.jpeg”] News Maria BC Preps New Album Marathon, Shares Title Track The lead single, about feeling nostalgia for a gas station, is inspired by the \u201csatanic poetry\u201d of advertising By Jazz Monroe January 8, 2026 Maria BC, photo by Senny Mau Maria BC has lined up a new album, Marathon. The Oakland musician […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,54],"class_list":["post-1745937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-pitchfork-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}