The indie-rock project of New York-based songwriter and artist Maria Crawford, Wilby’s debut full-length, Center of Affection features 12 songs of unflinching vulnerability and cut-throat honesty, intimate revelations after years of emotional reflection and self-acceptance. Center of Affection began as a creative practice, a result of morning pages that unfurled like stream of consciousness diary entries. During previous efforts, when Crawford would write to prompts, enter the nebulous “album mode,” or search for a theme to spur her creative practice, everything felt forced. It was only in letting go, in a decision to let her strongest ideals bubble from the roots of her subconscious to the top of her mind, that she was able to write her bravest, most beautiful, and strongest effort to date.