NYC's True Blue a.k.a Maya Laner has today let loose a new number, "No Water". Laner opens a new chapter for True Blue with this single, in which she is producing everything entirely herself. “No Water” follows True Blue exploring forgiveness as a cost and a paradox, is to forgive to forget?

How do you define forgiveness?
Forgiveness is letting go of what isn’t and embracing what is. It’s an active choice that requires work. It requires grace, understanding, and love for yourself and others. it is to choose the future/the now instead of clutch onto the past with a vice grip.

You have previously said that making music is a cathartic process for you, is this the same with No Water? When listening to the song it almost feels as if you are affirming something with yourself.
Any time I make a song I feel like I am channeling or externalizing a feeling. I like songwriting and producing for that reason. I enjoy the process of trying to figure out how to infuse a feeling into all different parts of a songs arrangement. I used to study beats and song arrangements and try to figure out what exactly was happening for them to be giving a certain feeling / energy. I’m particularly moved by the world of No Water because I wrote and arranged it myself. The song is a fully realized world that transcends the music.

There is a real movement online at the moment that has popularised the notion of self–care and personal development with links to spirituality. This has been promoted by female pop artists in particular, Princess Nokia often mentions spirituality in connection with her art.

You describe “No Water” as a spell for healing. Does spirituality and/or self-care play a significant role in your practice?
I definitely relate to a sense of spirituality playing a role in my work. It’s hard for me to engage with the term self-care because of how much baggage it has as a buzzword at the moment, but if i think about it in the purest terms I think that my work is a way of caring for myself. I love and respect Princess Nokia and consider her a role model in many ways.

Tell us your ultimate ritual for healing.
Healing, by nature, must be on a case by case basis. I don’t have an ultimate ritual but I find that a lot of the time meditation / visualization works well for me to clear psychic energy. I’ve been really interested in the relationship between psychic and physical when it comes to trauma and healing. My favorite book on the subject is Psychomagic by Alejandro Jodorowsky.

It has been said that within the current age of technology there are no objective truths anymore, the lyrics in No Water seem to touch on this a bit as well as taunting hints at the cost of forgiveness. The lyrics “you know what you did, you know what you said” seem to have a particular emphasis on this.

How do you feel on contemporary ideas about morality and truth, especially those on social media, play into your day to day thinking and decision making, and does this go on to influence your music?
Factual truth has never mattered in art making because it’s about using other tools for communicating a feeling. Maybe that’s why it’s always been my preferred mode of communication. I definitely like to have fun with that by creating narrative or antagonism in my lyrics that exist outside of a literal truth. The contemporary ideas of morality and truth are sad and unhinged... there’s never been a better time to just go for it and "live your truth" lol

Speaking of truth, is there anything you’d like to forgive your younger self for?
I guess I forgive my younger self for not loving or believing in myself enough!