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On Cut Worms, the new self-titled album from\nBrooklyn-based Max Clarke, the singer-songwriter and musician\ncontinues his exploration of what he calls “pop essentialism”.\nMining the golden hits of yesteryear for a timeless double A-side\nsound, he contemplates age-old questions through a modern\nlens. Here, he leaves behind the legendary studio and sought-after\nproducers for a more homegrown approach, working with a cast of\ngifted friends and collaborators. The result is a compact collection\nof daydream anthems that live between the summer’s hopeful\nbeginnings and the season’s fleeting end.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs opposed to recording the entire album in one chunk at\none studio, Clarke varied his methods. Three of the songs were\ncut from start to finish in his shared rehearsal space. “Don’t Fade\nOut” and Living Inside” were recorded in Brooklyn by Brian and\nMichael D’Addario of the Lemon Twigs, who also played piano and\nbass, respectively, on these two songs. Further basic tracking was\ndone by Rick Spataro (of indie folk band Florist) at his Hudson\nValley studio, Onlyness Analog, with contributions from the long\nstanding Cut Worms live band–keyboardist John Andrews, bassist\nKeven Louis Lareau, and drummer Noah Bond (who played on all\nthree sessions).\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA youthful spirit breathes throughout these nine songs. The\ncarnation-adorned school dance serenade of “I’ll Never Make It”;\nthe starry eyed infatuation of “Is it Magic?”; the first fall leaves\non the bus ride to school on “Living Inside”–all evoke a place of\nwarmth and safety. Declarations like “Don’t Fade Out”, “Let’s Go\nOut On The Town”, and “Use Your Love” make high demands for\nlife to change, but beg for us, as people, to keep hold of what makes\nus human. 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Recorded between May and November 2019 in Memphis, Tennessee, the album is a snow globe of the mid-twentieth-century’s popular music filled with chiming guitars, honkey tonk pianos, and Telstar organs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA constant creator - be it his Cut Worms alter-ego or his day-job illustration work (designing brand logos and beer labels with madhouse technicolor pictures) - writing and making records has always been Max’s driving force. So after an extensive eighteen-months of touring in support of 2017’s \u003ci\u003eAlien Sunset \u003c\/i\u003eand 2018’s \u003ci\u003eHollow Ground\u003c\/i\u003e, he set about sifting through the fragment pieces and sketches of tunes he’d accumulated, along with a jet-stream of new compositions, mining his life-long devotion to the lost American songbook for inspiration. By the time he flew to Memphis to work with producer Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips Studio, he’d stockpiled more than thirty new songs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA loss of innocence lingers through this 80-minute opus as Clarke attempts to harbor love and meaning inside a world that sold itself out. He explores the wistfulness of the past in search of answers for tomorrow. 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