Maniac is a three-track EP released on June 9th, 2018, expanding the early foundation of MATEYEVIC’s work. If Psycho was an inward glance — raw survival carved out of solitude — Maniac looks outward, louder and more confrontational, carrying the same scars but showing them in the light. The record dwells on absence, broken ties, and the resolve to step beyond repetition, turning grief and exhaustion into sharp-edged clarity.

The EP begins with “A Place Without You”, a song of release disguised as heartbreak. Its verses trace the collapse of promises “turned to stone” and nights filled with “the same old set of lies,” but instead of surrendering, the track insists on escape. The chorus — “I want to find a place without you” — repeats like a vow, hammering independence into being. What could have been a lament becomes instead a statement of freedom, setting the tone for what follows.

From there, “Papa” reaches deeper, into a silence that never left. It is an address to an absent father, spoken half as confession, half as ritual. “I called, but not out loud / I searched, but not in crowds” — words that circle the wound without resolving it. The track lingers in that paradox where absence still haunts like presence, where loss continues to shape the nights. Its refrain does not break open; it drifts, heavy and unsettled, like a shadow that refuses to move.

The closing track, “I Won’t Repeat”, gathers the exhaustion of cycles and brings it to an end. It is the longest and most resolute piece on the record, admitting the weight of everything tried and lost: “I’m out of lines, nothing new to say we haven’t said a hundred times.” Yet within its fatigue lies renewal, a choice to stop replaying the same mistakes and begin again, “teaching myself a different hope.” By the time the chorus declares “That’s why I won’t repeat,” the refusal feels not bitter but liberated, a boundary drawn with finality.

Taken together, the three songs form an answer to Psycho’s first statement. Where that record embraced solitude as strength, Maniac confronts the ties that wound and chooses not to carry them forward. It is not polished or reconciled, but it is sharper, more defiant — a voice that refuses silence, insists on survival, and claims power in the act of not turning back.