Max Norton explores themes of longing, need and self-discovery by astrological imagery and emotive indie rock on his fourth solo providing ‘Comets’.

Max Norton – Comets

Opening the observe with a easy but shifting Americana-inspired guitar riff and the road ‘I’ve been ready up for you for a while’, Max Norton instantly evokes a wave of nostalgia each musically and lyrically. Regardless of the observe’s melancholic undertones and themes of feeling misplaced, Norton efficiently weaves in emotions of awe and surprise with the repeated astrological imagery of stars and comets, used to convey a way of separation and distance probably inside himself or in a relationship.

Musically the observe is propelled alongside by an underlying power, held collectively by a gentle rhythm part which comes as no shock contemplating Norton’s credibility as an completed drummer for artists corresponding to Olivia Jean and Benjamin Booker. The observe is sparsely embellished with twinkling piano notes and an exquisite array of calmly distorted guitar riffs, paying homage to American indie giants corresponding to The Killers or the guy Nashville-bred Kings of Leon.

The manufacturing on ‘Comets’ is uncooked but delicate with an actual DIY indie sound. Each facet of the music is ready to breathe with out feeling overpowering or drowned out, and Norton makes use of this to his benefit to indicate off some spectacular falsetto vocals main as much as the refrain and within the tracks dreamy instrumental bridge.

Norton wears his American roots on his sleeve while exhibiting his love of UK pageant tradition with a refrain of ‘Maintain onto me, don’t ever let me down’, that wouldn’t sound misplaced being shouted again to him by a Glastonbury or Studying pageant crowd. Norton’s love of Glastonbury, and his fond recollections of enjoying gigs within the UK, are what impressed his transfer throughout the pond to London the place he now resides, so it solely appears becoming that ‘Comets’ options such an ideal festival-ready sing-along refrain, which can absolutely have audiences hooked at his upcoming debut exhibits in London and the UK.

‘Regardless of the observe’s melancholic undertones and themes of feeling misplaced, Norton efficiently weaves in emotions of awe and surprise’

‘This observe is about being misplaced in your self and witnessing some cosmic occasions, whether or not you share the sighting of comets or not is as much as you…’ – Max Norton

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Phrases Harry Peters