Maria BC will release their new album entitled, Marathon, on February 27, 2026 via Sacred Bones. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, they share the single “Night & day,” featuring Bay Area peer Cole Pulice on saxophone. “Night & day” describes a lonesome cowboy longing for the night, when he can be with the one he loves: “The dream gets so vivid just before it ends, I’m hanging on your voice, hanging on your words, hanging ‘round your neck.” This song takes on a different form from the others, it indulges listeners with the falling pitch of a saxophone, lulling us into a landscape of equal shame and desperation.

Maria BC on “Night & Day”: “I imagined this as a kind of lonesome cowboy song, an ode to the night. When his workday is over and the sun’s gone down, he can be with the one he loves, and speak freely, feel deeply. This time is so precious to him, he often gets carried away and clings to it desperately. Then the morning brings shame, stupor, new longing. One of my favorite moments of the album comes toward the end of this song, when Cole’s saxophone comes in with a falling pitch.” They elaborate on the video: “I trudged through freezing mud and water. Saber built a rowboat, and we sunk it in the moonlight.”

Marathon was written and recorded at location through out the West Coast. The title track was inspired by a childhood landmark, a gas station with a bright “M” greeting them on their drive home, the song captures the tension between innocence and exploitation, as it rings in the feeling of homecoming while having to face the reality of greed and destruction caused by oil companies. “That this logo, even with all the evil it connotes, can invoke nostalgia – can be a beacon – is very sinister to me,” Maria BC reflects. “Safety” takes on a softer tone, with gentle guitar strumming, but carries foreboding lyricism – “If safety is freedom you can’t trust no one” they sing.

Maria BC
Marathon
Tracklisting
Sacred Bones

1. Marathon
2. As the earth turns
3. Peacemaking
4. Safety
5. Rare
6. Port authority
7. The sound
8. Sabotage
9. June
10. Night & day
11. May this rain
12. Channels
13. Miami

Maria BC 2026 Tour Dates

2/12 – Asheville, NC @ AyurPrana Listening Room *
2/13 – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook *
2/14 – Washington, D.C. @ Songbyrd *
2/15 – Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy *
2/17 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s *
2/18 – NYC @ Le Poisson Rouge *
2/19 – Providence, RI @ Alchemy *
2/20 – Boston, MA @ Arts at the Armory *
2/21 – Portland, ME @ Space Gallery *
2/22 – Burlington, VT @ Foam *
2/24 – Montreal, QC @ Casa del Popolo *
2/26 – Toronto, ON @ Sound Garage *
2/28 – Chicago, IL @ Sleeping Village *
3/1 – Columbus, OH @ Natalie’s Grandview *
3/12 – San Francisco, CA @ 4 Star Theatre
3/15 – Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon

* = w/ Marissa Nadler

Pre-order Marathon by Maria BC HERE