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Max Cooper announces new album, Unspoken Words
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 19 January 2022
Max Cooper has announced that he will release his new album, ‘Unspoken Words’, in March, and has also shared new single ‘Everything’.
“I’ve always struggled with words”, he says of the inspiration for the album. “Trying to communicate anything meaningful about my internal state, in any way which seems to do it justice, has always been beyond me. But music bypasses language. It is my means of expression, which is why I make a lot of it – I’m compelled to create”.
“I find existing inside my mind to be a sometimes beautiful, sometimes intense, sometimes abrasive, messy, baffling, relentless experience”, he adds. “I’ve tried to put as much of that feeling and form as I could into the album”.
The album’s first single, ‘Everything’, he explains, is inspired by the idealism of 80s and 90s popular culture.
“I love feeling that anything is possible”, he explains. “It feels like I’m bursting and need to find some expression. The synths seemed to carry the hope of everything I could imagine, condensed into the simple chord progression, improvised pads and layers of distortion. It was a lot of fun to work with, and spending time in that creative mindset generated lots of ideas which could be shot down later under less manic conditions”.
‘Unspoken Words’ is out on 25 Mar. Listen to ‘Everything’ here: