PREMIERE | Myriads, "5 a.m."

Maria DeHart of Myriads; photographed by Meredith James.

That peculiar point where night and morning meet together like clasped hands in congress, like a shared prayer, is something special and sublime. They conjure up a restlessness that has no time for sleep, regardless of what degree of exhaustion is at play, entertaining an electrified mind and heart that is insomniatic, energized, infatuated, and enthralled by the essence of a cherished fellow spirit. This is when it feels that even if but for a fleeting moment the world has stopped, night and day hold little to no power over the folks that stand in the divide in a world where the auspices of evening and dawn dissolve into a separate and disparate dimension. These are those elusive in-between zones, the liminal spaces where we find our folks, the pairing of sacred hearts and spirits in the time splits that the clocks and calendars cannot control or dictate with their itineraries and agenda edicts.

Debuting a song for sleepless lovers is Myriads with “5 a.m.” where the midnight movements are met with the sunrise beam signals of daybreak. Featured off the forthcoming Find Ourselves Again, Portland artist Maria DeHart follows up the 2023 EP Win Some, Lose Everyone with songs that center on the human connection. The ties that bind us to loved ones, the threads that reconnect and center us to our inner-selves, and the ways in which we discover newfound energies and inspirations in others and our surrounding communities. Maria makes music about what it feels like to find love, channeling the thrills, excitement, the tinges of anxiety, ecstasy, and enthralled sentiments that defy descriptors of becoming lost in the presence of someone that we are falling truly, madly, deeply, and ultimately head over heels for.

“5 a.m.” is a privy view to the amorous evenings that we wish could last forever, somehow staving off the sun break of a brand new day. Maria beautifully articulates what happens when the world dissolves around a pair in the throes of a tryst where the body, mind, and spirit become enraptured in the heat of passions that mesmerize in ways that only poetics can express in approximations of their power. Myriads extols the virtues and very essence of DeHart’s chosen moniker, exploring the worlds that arise out of the intimacy between us and our shared expanses of humanity.

“5 a.m.” basks in those multitudes that we and one another possess, the places where the physical transcends into the spiritual, as we together experience things that papers, keyboards, and pens can never linguistically capture. Myriads follows these feelings and passions into the break of dawn, raging against the budding rays of morning light while lamenting the blanketing cover of the dying night. Maria presents a song for lovers, a song for lusty souls that have ever dared to steal away in the spaces of time where everyone else has retired for the evening, most establishments have closed up, and the daybreak of new beginnings have only but begun.

Posting up at the vaulted portals that portend to infinite possibilities with Maria DeHart of Myriads; photographed by Meredith James.

Maria DeHart offered the following thoughts on on the late night / early morning moods and moments that contributed to the creation of “5 a.m.”

“5 a.m.” is about the exhilarating whirlwind of learning about someone new and falling in love with them overnight.

Cover art for “5 a.m.” courtesy of Myriads.

It's lustful and romantic but it's not really about sex — it's about kissing, moving around each other's bodies, and feeling someone's hands on your hips and shoulders for the first time.

Myriads’ Maria DeHart among the floral array; photographed by Meredith James.

It's raw, sexy, honest — and ultimately, a love song.

Myriads’ Find Ourselves Again will be available soon. Listen to more from Myriads via Spotify.