For those unaware, Park Hills Circle is the atmospheric indie project of Maris Maeve O’Tierney, a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, piano) currently based in Chicago.

This debut album entitled All of a Sudden (which will be released via Pravda Records on August 7th, 2026) features colorful stacked vocal harmonies, warm synths, ethereal fingerstyle guitar, and soaring saxophone. Maris has deep musical foundations in classical guitar and voice/opera and draws influence from her two homes of origin: the storytelling and mysticism of Ireland, and the open, mountain environment of Alaska.

Park Hills Circle expands upon Maris’ decade plus of leading cross-genre duo Maeve & Quinn with her violinist twin sister. Maeve & Quinn perform their songs, poetry in recitation, instrumental music, and storytelling in interdisciplinary performance programs - featured with the Poetry Foundation, Steppenwolf Theatre, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre.

Maeve & Quinn have also premiered their orchestral compositions with the Chicago Composers Orchestra and Anchorage (Alaska) Symphony Orchestra. Their most recent LP, Another Door (2023), was featured in the Chicago Tribune, Earmilk, Bandcamp, and Under the Radar, among others.

1. Clearing
2. Spring is Here
3. Softly Calling Your Name
4. Unspoke
5. Where Can I See You
6. Company We Keep
7. A Million Times
8. Playing With Fire
9. The Way Up
10. All of a Sudden

The accomplished singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist opens her debut album on the emotively endearing Clearing and the affecting beauty of the airy Spring is Here and then we are gifted the rhythmical Softly Calling Your Name, the atmospherically ethereal Unspoke and the quietly strident fare of Where Can I See You.

Along next is the robustly cultured Company We Keep which is itself backed seamlessly by the swirling decadence of A Million Times, the acoustically-imbibed, upbeat and sunset on the porch with friends-hued Playing With Fire, the new set rounding out on the emotively impassioned The Way Up, coming to an all-too-soon close on the beautifully fluctuating gossamer of All of a Sudden.

www.parkhillscirclemusic.com

Park Hills Circle - All of a Sudden [Official Video]