During an interview for the Armchair Expert podcast on Wednesday, the singer-songwriter told host Dax Shepard that she has been inspired creatively after switching her label from Columbia Records' Nashville branch to the one in New York City. "I think just retooling this genre shift kind of away from country and more so, like, in every realm, genre-less space, has been really tough but necessary and scary - just to walk away from something that I built for so long. I didn't fit it anymore. It didn't fit me." Maren dropped a new EP titled Intermission in August.