DC rock ensemble, Dear Daria, channels our collective pandemic-induced existential dread and musings on new EP, Solastalgia

Solastalgia is the six song follow-up to Dear Daria’s debut album, Can I Be Frank? Engineered and mixed by Mark Reiter at BIAS Studios in Northern Virginia, Solastalgia, will undoubtedly warrant repeat listens.

“Tino” and “Empire” are bonafide pop anthems that have been big crowd pleasers at the band’s live shows. The former describes the archetypal flakey friend who makes a lot of promises but rarely follows through, while the latter is an homage to the mid-90s cult classic, Empire Records. The EP’s other four tracks are more cerebral post-pandemic reflections. “On the Inside” explores how lockdown-induced depression made even the most simple and mundane of tasks feel daunting and impossible. “Avalanche” is a reaction to the skepticism of science and rejection of truth and fact that proliferated throughout the pandemic. “Cabin Fever” is a manic, frenzied study of what can happen to people when you keep them cooped up inside by themselves for too long, and “Making a Dying” is a somber, but hopeful closer that asks the listener a simple, but profound question: can we really call it “making a living” if we have to work until we die? And could there perhaps be a different path we could take?

Dear Daria is composed of DC music veterans Maryjo Mattea, Joshua Hunter, Eamonn Donnelly, and Dan ABH. The band writes storyteller songs about angst, love, mental health and depression, and a longing for the world to be the kind of safe and accepting place we all wished we lived in. The band’s spirit is informed by a post-modern mosaic of pop-culture references. Musically, Dear Daria is a brightly-colored swirl of power pop, indie rock, alt-rock, and pop punk.

Modern Mystery Blog called the band “the perfect purveyors of tuneful heart-on-sleeve alt-rock”, and KMS Reviews said, “You gotta love this retro-soaked handmade honesty…it’s a sound that you can dance, sing along, and get addicted to while learning a life lesson.” Guitarist Joshua Hunter discovered the term “solastalgia”, which combines the Latin words for “home” and “pain/suffering”. Philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term and defines it as "the homesickness you have when you are still at home" when your home environment is changing in ways you find distressing. “It feels like we accidentally made a concept album,” says Hunter, and “solastalgia” summed up its ethos perfectly.

Making a Dying

Cabin Fever

Avalanche

Empire

On the Inside

Tino

LYRICS

Les murs me regardent, témoins de mes peines,
Les heures s’étirent, et mon cœur se déchaîne.
Je cherche une chaleur, un visage familier,
Mais la vie m’abandonne, dans ce désert glacé.

Seul au milieu, d’un silence profond,
Le monde tourne encore, mais sans moi.
Un cri dans ma tête, une quête inassouvie,
Seul et silencieux, comme un navire englouti.

Chaque pas résonne, un poids sous mes pieds,
Les rues semblent figées, la vie, déconnectée.
Je tends la main, mais personne pour la serrer,
Les regards passent au loin, sans jamais s’arrêter.

Je porte ma croix, un vide qui m’épuise,
Mais j’espère encore, qu’une lumière me guide.

Seul au milieu, d’un silence profond,
Le monde tourne encore, mais sans moi.
Un cri dans ma tête, une quête inassouvie,
Seul et silencieux, comme un navire englouti.

Peut-être qu’un jour, je croiserai ce regard,
Qui fera taire le froid, qui effacera le brouillard.
Mais pour l’instant, je porte ce fardeau précieux,
Seul et silencieux, un chemin douloureux.

Le monde tourne encore

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Steeled for Eternity
- Govt. shut down- Gov. should get together and establish themselves independent of fed. govt. No responsibility assumed. Suffering varies. Guilty will be put on display. Lack of resources will be an excuse while monies are diverted. Timing can be important with other natural events. Traitors sing. Ex. CERN. Watchers of gateways. 
-Scientists aware of craft. Deities honored with craft and weapon names. Held seances. Evil called good and good called evil. 
- Dark entity that operates in US. Media speaks of origins of US ideologies from other countries. Rome, Greece, Babylon. Satan is architect of fall of mankind. 
- Fallen taught enchantments, technology, building weapons of war, philosophies, meds, make up, etc. There are cycles of growth. We were taught advanced methods. Enter greed. Rebellion against Most High. Premature knowledge brought corruption. Having money requires training. Back to days of Noah. Chimeras perfected. Most dangerous areas tend to be populated cities. Many thousands of missing people. Targets unless covered. We get isolated. Crowds protected Christ and apostles. 
- Darkness will try to keep people away from you that you want to help set free. 
- We judge angels because we live in what they tainted. A product of their rebellion. We're directly affected so make good witnesses in our Father's court. We are qualified. 
- If nephilim spirit is ejected, Holy Spirit must enter or 7X worse will enter. 
- Perfect love casts out fear. Spirit of fear based on imagination. Full acceptance of Father is agreeing with commandments loving God, neighbor and enemy. 
- Some believe in Christ, but not the spiritual influence. Hurting someone accidentally shows us evil spirits blind us. It's part of the process. We won't remember those that don't make it to Heaven. Obeying now in a weak form steels us for eternity. It's not what you say, it's how you walk. It's foolishness to try to lie to or deceive God. Lessons continue until final victory. 
- Doesn't matter if it's you someone hears of the Lord from. We want to be embraced by our families. Set yourself aside. Being believed doesn't validate us, as much as we want it. Don't expect others to see the strides of your faith. You do have a permanent family. Just pray for them.  

10 22 2025  The Debris of Angels

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in darkness we remain

Creeping sorrow, pull me under



Written by Briyan Frederick Baker and Joe Maki
Published by Blind Mime Music, ASCAP & Jomah Kai Music, ASCAP
© Briyan Frederick Baker and Joseph Alan Maki. All rights reserved.
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Joe started this one with a piano instrumental he wrote initially some time ago and unearthed and revised on October 25, 2025. He described it like this:

“So I ran across a piano piece that needed fleshing out — I think it might be something. It’s called Hearth, or maybe Fall Ends. I’m deep in the autumn frame of mind, and it suggested a fire slowly dying with the frost creeping in. I had to use a different piano sound in the middle — not sure what I used originally.”

That set the tone. The piece immediately felt like late autumn — quiet, reflective, a little bit haunted by the chill of change.

When I took the inspiration for the lyric, I started from the word Hearth, but my mind wandered to Hearth and Home. The title felt familiar, almost comforting, yet the minor inflection in Joe’s music turned it away from any notion of simple warmth or nostalgia. It became something more complicated — a song about how we try to understand each other but rarely succeed.

The past week’s conversations with people crept into it too. It feels like everyone just wants to be understood and appreciated, but we’re all a little trapped inside our own heads. Words are blunt tools for delicate things. They don’t do us justice. So much gets lost in translation — and yet, we keep trying.

Hearth and Home

You’re stuck inside your head
Despite the universal truths
People are the same, but not the same
An extension of the fears that held their youth

But who am I but just someone
Another man who’s come undone
Unspun around the common thread
Stuck inside this great big head

After all is said and done
You never really know someone
You never know what you don’t know
You never know their hearth and home
You never know their hearth and home

It’s practically impractical
Before it gets dramatical
I’ll leave before the curtain calls
No, you won’t catch me after all… pretending
Words are dumb and never really know
The ending
Yet it’s always the same
It’s always the very same ending
And it’s such a shame

It’s such a shame!…

You’re stuck inside your head
Despite the universal truths
The brutes in us are winning
While all the ghouls in us come grinning

Through their masks at masquerades
They dance around the false facades
Mispronounced like lemonade
The credits roll, the image fades

After all is said and done
You never really know someone
You never know what you don’t know
You never know their hearth and home
You never know their hearth and home

About the Song
Hearth and Home sits in that fragile emotional space between intimacy and isolation — the quiet ache of realizing that even when we share our thoughts, we remain mysteries to one another. It’s a song about communication and disconnection, about the warmth we reach for and the chill that inevitably returns.

tags: piano, autumn, reflection, misunderstanding, communication, introspection, identity, masquerade, truth, perception, melancholy, relationships, humanity, masks, façade, emotion, nostalgia, isolation, connection, irony, lyrical, poetic


Hearth and Home

LYRICS

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Je me lève, je salue mon miroir chromé, 
il me renvoie un « like », poli mais froid. 
Je fais défiler ma vie, c’est plus doux qu’la vraie, 
au moins l’algorithme m’écoute, lui, tu vois. 

Je parle aux machines, elles m’font la morale, 
elles me disent de respirer entre deux signaux. 
L’amour se télécharge, puis plante aussitôt, 
mais c’est toujours mieux qu’un vide, en stéréo. 

J’ai des amis pixel que je vois jamais vieillir, 
ils m’racontent leurs joies, je leur rends mes soupirs. 
On se like à mort, on s’aime sans se frôler, 
on vit à plein réseau, cœur en mode avion. 

Je parle aux machines, elles m’font la morale, 
elles me disent d’respirer entre deux signaux. 
L’amour se télécharge, puis plante aussitôt, 
mais c’est toujours mieux qu’un vide, en stéréo. 

Je me dis qu’un jour, faudra rallumer l’vrai ciel, 
voir si les nuages existent encore. 
Mais je remets ça à plus tard, artificiel. 

Je parle aux machines, elles me font la morale, 
elles m’disent d’respirer entre deux signaux. 
L’amour se télécharge, puis plante aussitôt, 
mais c’est toujours mieux qu’un vide, en stéréo. 


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Washington, DC-based four-piece Dear Daria writes storyteller songs about angst, love, social commentary, mental health, and a longing for the world to be the kind of safe and accepting place we all wished we lived in. The band’s spirit is informed by a post-modern mosaic of cultural references. Musically, Dear Daria is a brightly-colored swirl of power pop, indie rock, alt-rock, and pop punk. Frontwoman Maryjo Mattea says “it's like if Lennon and McCartney grew up in the 90s”. Composed of long-time DC music mainstays Maryjo Mattea, Joshua Hunter, Eamonn Donnelly, and Dan ABH, Dear Daria has been favorably compared to Paramore, Rilo Kiley, and The Donnas.

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