Maximilian - Diurnals

Maximilian - Diurnals (OUT NOW)

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Recorded during the weekend of the ‘Super Beaver Moon’ last November, Maximilian is guided by the presence of uncanny celestial powers? Perhaps. By the delicate gratitudes of the heart, certainly.

Produced at Farm Road studios with Bobby Smyth (Hutch, big long sun), Diurnals also strips things back: acoustic instrumentation, live recording, no click track. Keeping things ‘organic’ and ‘in the moment’, so to speak. (lead single ‘I know You’ was even recorded in one take, all musicians together in the same room. Channelling at the times the closeness of Elliott Smith, or Big Thief’s more rustic diversions, it’s also an EP of blooming expansions, of chamber-pop orchestrations as warm and bright as an “afternoon sun peaking through a window.” (Stereogum).

“‘Diurnals’ is full of light. Daylight songs. All with the intended message of vocalising gratitude, positivity, compassion, and love. We are more likely to open up and talk about difficult things, or darkness, out of necessity. We have to intentionally choose to express things like gratitude and love. And we should all do so, as often as we can. So I am.”