[1][4][5] From 2006 to 2009, Maloney lived and worked at a silent meditation retreat center in Barre, Massachusetts, taking vows of silence for days at a time.

[2][1] According to Maloney, the silence helped her discover songwriting; she wrote her first songs while living at the retreat center.

[4][1][2] In December 2013, a New York Times blog wrote about and shared a video of Maloney performing 'Woodstock' with Darlingside; the writer favorably compared her to Mitchell.

[7] Following Woodstock, Maloney joined with producer Bill Reynolds[4] to create Making Me Break (2015).

[8] Reviewer Elisabeth Woronzoff writing in Pop Matters described Maloney's 2019 album Soil in the Sky as developing "a multitude of captivating musical twists all the while projecting earnest emotionality.