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Indies only coloured vinyl.
Max Clarke has a knack for conjuring up warmth in his music, like endless summer or ageless youth. The 27-yearolds debut album, Hollow Ground, crackles with the heat of a love-struck nostalgia, woven together with a palpable Everly Brothers influence and retro sound. It reaches back into decades of plainspoken, unfussy and squarely American storytelling and pulls it forth into 2018.
Some of Hollow Ground bloomed from that same period of driven creativity that yielded EP Alien Sunset; both Like Going Down Sideways and Dont Want To Say Good- Bye find new life on the album.
The rest is new. Theres Till Tomorrow Goes Away, a sheepish love song, thrumming with twangy guitar and a two-step rhythm. Cash For Gold channels buoyancy; a doo-wop effect on the sleepy backing vocals build out the dreaminess of Clarkes own affecting croon.
Hollow Ground strikes the balance between cerebral and simplicity in his storytelling. His lyrics explore the raw realm of youth, its weightlessness and possibilities but channelled through a lens of restraint. Someone whos old enough to know better but still gets drawn back into the romanticism of teenage feelings and knows how to take the listener along, too.
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