Max Winter - Lean into Me / O Matter - (zero)one
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- 1Lean into Me (feat. IMOGEN)
- 2O Matter
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Max Winter returns with a new single titled “O Matter”. The single marks the announcement of a new open series named (zero) powered by London label untitled (recs). (zero) will focus on releasing short form projects, and stems from the willingness to go back to the enthusiasm of spontaneous releases.
The first single in the series “O Matter” comes from an artist who wholly embraces that ethos. Having produced and written with the likes of GAIKA, Lauren Auder, and hotly tipped songwriter Sophie May, Max conceived the new single during a week where he was trying to write one musical idea a day. The track also features Max’s long-term collaborators Will Lister on additional production and IMOGEN on guest vocals. The trio continue to play a big part in the development of Max’s sound, sharing a studio in South-East London, they have carefully curated a world where they can collaborate both together and with likeminded artists.
Max Winter’s music seeks to traverse a breadth of styles – a world where freewheeling jazzwise drum workouts linger behind driving bass and glooming electronics, where cuttings of melodic and angular vocal clips playfully exchange with restrained melodic ambience, where driving & pummelling big drop productions resurface as experimental pop stunners.
“O Matter” sees Max further solidify this compositional ethic. The track is made up of shuffled fragments taken from guitar and drum takes (that were recorded on his phone) alongside vocal melodies which were then deconstructed, electronically manipulated, and restructured into the final song. The result is a maelstrom of crystalline vocals which warp and buckle around driving low-end bass, glitchy forked guitars, and dynamic drumming (from estimable London drummer Ewan Moore) which careens around lo-fi beats and mellifluous synths.
Speaking on the single, Max says, “one of my intentions was to always have it anchored by a clear melody, to help deal with the chaos around it. In the end it turned into some kind of Mariah Carey feature on a glitch rock tune. I think it shows how my sounds has developed from my last release, and I am stepping more into song writing but still using the same processes I may have done for more experimental and instrumental based pieces.”
The first single in the series “O Matter” comes from an artist who wholly embraces that ethos. Having produced and written with the likes of GAIKA, Lauren Auder, and hotly tipped songwriter Sophie May, Max conceived the new single during a week where he was trying to write one musical idea a day. The track also features Max’s long-term collaborators Will Lister on additional production and IMOGEN on guest vocals. The trio continue to play a big part in the development of Max’s sound, sharing a studio in South-East London, they have carefully curated a world where they can collaborate both together and with likeminded artists.
Max Winter’s music seeks to traverse a breadth of styles – a world where freewheeling jazzwise drum workouts linger behind driving bass and glooming electronics, where cuttings of melodic and angular vocal clips playfully exchange with restrained melodic ambience, where driving & pummelling big drop productions resurface as experimental pop stunners.
“O Matter” sees Max further solidify this compositional ethic. The track is made up of shuffled fragments taken from guitar and drum takes (that were recorded on his phone) alongside vocal melodies which were then deconstructed, electronically manipulated, and restructured into the final song. The result is a maelstrom of crystalline vocals which warp and buckle around driving low-end bass, glitchy forked guitars, and dynamic drumming (from estimable London drummer Ewan Moore) which careens around lo-fi beats and mellifluous synths.
Speaking on the single, Max says, “one of my intentions was to always have it anchored by a clear melody, to help deal with the chaos around it. In the end it turned into some kind of Mariah Carey feature on a glitch rock tune. I think it shows how my sounds has developed from my last release, and I am stepping more into song writing but still using the same processes I may have done for more experimental and instrumental based pieces.”
