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WATCH: ‘the craziest thing i’ve ever done’ (Official Video)
“When we were writing ‘the craziest thing I’ve ever done’, lyrically we wanted it to capture all this insane, extravagant imagery and then juxtapose that with something we usually see as ordinary, which is love,” Max says of the release. “The catch is that love IS the craziest thing we do. It’s painful and terrifying, and yet we put ourselves through it over and over again.”
Where the breadth of previous releases ‘5‘ and ‘Malleable‘ straddled contemporary music-making with old school influences, Leone’s new single is a leap further in pop stardom. Since emerging last year Max Leone has broken through as a rising star, boasting over 5 million streams to date; acclaimed by Billboard, Pigeons & Planes, PAPER Magazine, NME, Earmilk, Ones To Watch, Pilerats, and many more plus rotation at triple j for his discography to date, including ‘5‘, ‘Malleable‘, ‘The Beach‘, ‘Cautious‘ and ‘First Grade‘.
Throughout his debut EP, Leone tells his story of navigating a new city alone while chasing a potentially far-fetched dream. He explores themes of self-doubt, longing for anything familiar, and coping with ‘modern isolation’: keeping up appearances on social media while silently suffering. Max Leone‘s brand of pop represents the marriage of formal musical training with an affection for contemporary alt-pop and R&B, a craft honed carefully over hours spent uploading bootleg remixes to Soundcloud, based on YouTube tutorials he obsessively studied after school. Stay tuned for Malleable and its nine tracks that will land in the next coming month.
‘the craziest thing i’ve ever done‘ is out now via the Darkroom,
buy/stream it here.
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