Max Russell
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Max Russell has written for BandQuote, Black Sheep Newspaper, and now reports for the music section of The Young Folks.

The Neighbourhood Reinvents Themselves on “Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones”

Chip Chrome & The Mono-Tones sounds like its own band name, but in actuality, it is the latest album by The Neighbourhood. After topping the charts with the single, “Sweater Weather,” The Neighbourhood took their newfound success and decided to…

Album Review: Anjimile explores doubt, love and acceptance on “Giver Taker”

Singing about topics from the struggles of acceptance to the hanging specter of religion, Anjimile performs with honesty that resonates. Over course of Giver Taker, Anjimile draws the listener in with soothing melodies that are calming to the soul. There…

Album Review: Hurts – “Faith”

Hurts latest album Faith takes their theatrical electropop style and applies it to a moody-rock backdrop. Their fifth album’s dark aesthetic comes off well timed in the quarantine era, where each introspective song reverberates with an existential loneliness. Throughout the…

Album Review: Erasure – “The Neon”

Erasure is a band that prides itself on feel-good music. Even the title The Neon is an easy to identify ode to the fluorescent lights that illuminate dance clubs. It is a simple way to let newcomers know what to…

“Bride To Quiet” A Quarantine-Inspired Experimental EP from Animal Collective

Bridge to Quiet, the quarantine EP created by Animal Collective, is pure experimentation. They take a ton of twang, echo in hypnotic droning, and stretch sound through a synthesizer in every which way to create a psychedelic-jam-band aesthetic to be…

Album Review: Young Ejecta – “Ride Lonesome”

Young Ejecta forms a simple contrast on their latest album “Ride Lonesome”. The soothing sound of singer Leanne Macomber is fine-tuned to be intertwined along an electronic beat, honed from her time with the electronic music band Neon Indian. Meanwhile,…

Album Review: The Naked And Famous – “Recover”

The Naked and Famous have gone through a downsizing over the years. The band is now a duo, with Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers backing each other up as co-stars working in tandem to produce a dreamy, alt-rock aesthetic. The…