1tbsp

There’s something strangely comforting about being in a hotel room — surrounded by unfamiliar furniture, behind walls that have held thousands of lives for a night or two. It’s quiet, but never truly still. The hum of a hallway. A distant knock. A song playing softly from a room that isn’t yours. It’s that blend of anonymity and intimacy that threads through 1tbsp’s latest release, Hotel Living, a six-track EP that feels like breathing in fresh air after a too-long stay in the same place.

Diving deep into the rhythmic allure of reggaeton and the soulful undertones of Latin music, 1tbsp, also known as the Grammy Award Nominated producer Maxwell Byrne, admits, “I think maybe Rosalia was a big gateway for me into that world… it became more about the rhythm and tone of the voice rather than understanding the lyrics, and I wanted to explore that through 1tbsp.”