Marie, the debut album from Kit Center, is a collection of memories - each song a glimpse into the artist’s heart for a moment in time. It is a hero’s journey of sorts: leaving home, facing death, opening portals, meeting shadows, and many times over, falling to his knees at the altar of love. The odyssey isn’t linear, and the LP lands like a series of overlain portraits, transparencies stacked on a table that can be held up to the light. Marie has no clear allegiance to genre, and it moves freely between country-tinged ballads, drum machine folk, and howling psychedelia. There is a common thread that’s subtle and somewhat hard to define - an easy, weighted feeling that’s come to be known amongst friends as heavy mellow.

The album was recorded in the spare room of Kit's home in Crockett, California and along the Big Sur coast at Sundog Studios, high on the mountain above the purple sands of the Pacific. Marie is the work of Kit Center (vocals, guitar), Jessie Leigh Smith (harmonica), Patrick Murphy (bass), Bryan Lovett (drums, organ), and Jason Cirimele (guitar, keys). Everything was recorded and mixed on tape by Kit, and all studio sessions were powered by the sun.