Kahn’s never made an album like Flowers before. When he’s recording in New Orleans, the projects are usually live material or feature a lot of guest performers. It’s how you get a record like When I Cross It Off, which includes folks like Esther Rose, Matt Bell, Ray Micarelli, Steph Green, Charlie Halloran, and Shaye Cohn. This time, though, it was just Kahn, Farbe, Pearson, and Snyder. “It’s a much more intimate process,” Kahn says. And the songs get personal without losing Kahn’s trademark brightness. He’ll always try to be funny about the things that are following him around, be it death, marriage, and whatever triumphs and tragedies fall someplace in-between. Flowers is a rock-steady album that inexplicably documents our humanity and who we become in the wake of loss and on the precipice of falling in love. “When I was writing these songs, I was trying to make it more of a spiritual journey,” he continues, “spiritual not as in God, but in connecting to the planet, connecting to your family, connecting to yourself more.”

—Matt Mitchell

released November 1, 2024

Songs by Max Bien Kahn
Performed and arranged by Max Bien Kahn, Ross Farbe, Howe Pearson, and Cameron Snyder
Produced by Farbe, Kahn, and Snyder
Recorded and Mixed by Farbe in New Orleans 2020-2021
Mastered by Carl Saff

Bust and photos by Camille Weatherford
Layout by Minnie Heart

Vinyl by No Vinyl Records
Digital Distro by Well Kept Secret