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If Yes Do

by Maximón

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Alicia Really, really loving this album. Sounds like so much swirling, magical wonder. Super tight baseline, CJ. Keep em coming! ❤?❤
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    Artwork by Matt McDole, a popular pop artist out of Louisville. @matthewwmcdole on Instagram.
    Album design/layout by Megan Mraz. @hellomeggo on Instagram

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1.
Colorbridge 04:47
I'm wondering if it's the end or it's the middle Because lately I've let the shine wear off Little by little I'm better with the words, because that comes easy And when I'm reclined I know you find My praise misleading But your colorbridge Oh it draws me in And your colorbridge Oh it's drawn me in Repose, bending backwards in tougher going And really I know when you push it back Our love is growing But your colorbridge Oh it draws me in And your colorbridge It's drawn me in.
2.
Werewolf 04:20
3.
Splice 04:31
I'm in a place where I'm becoming afraid of a crowd I never know what to do with myself when I'm out. I'll go and stand with a drink in my, hang around Older I've grown the more I'm feeling alone in my town. Sometimes I have no idea why I stay but somehow I do anyway, somehow I do anyway. It's the only place I feel safe. Friday again and I'll show out and pretend, like I do I'm at the end measuring who is my friend in this room If I go somewhere else I'm sure I'll feel what I've felt at some point Might as well trust even if its a bust and I'm right. Sometimes I have no idea why I stay but somehow I do anyway. If you were I could stay. Sometimes I have no idea why I stay somehow I do anyway. If I could leave I could change.
4.
Take Me Away 04:44
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I am waiting for something to pick me up Something to lift me twenty feet up above the ground But the more I look the more I don't know what I seek Because the more I look the more I'm trending towards the bleak I have fallen off the wagon to the ground And now my eyes and ears are disheartened by the sound The pitter patter of the feet that pass me by As if I haven't got control of my own life I've got my hand out, darling I'll wait here til you're ready to come Rest now, easy Nothing has to happen til we're done I have watched you stumble around in the dark Touching familiar surfaces to guide your heart I think it's time we consider something new A lovely shape that will conform to me and you
7.
Early, there's a fog from the lake Tie up my old shoes and I wait I'm saving up to buy some things. Out of swelter into the shade Wiping all the dirt from our hands I'm saving up to buy some things. Is it destiny for us all to slave? This makes less sense to me as I age Sever all the life you can make Twenty bucks to laugh and to drink There's rain on the horizon Rolling in to spoil the day Ignoring the phone as it rings Crossing off a road from my list I'm saving up to buy some things.
8.
Evernight 04:18
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Interlude 00:30
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about

When internal conflict caused their lineup to dramatically shift in 2014, the remaining members of what would become Maximon made a difficult decision: they started from scratch. Originally planning to resume the existing material, it became immediately clear that the new group dynamic was fertile for a new creative direction.

In 2015, Maximon released their first single, called "Flame". Their debut enjoyed strong local acclaim, receiving best of year accolades from the alternative publication The LEO Weekly and public radio station 91.9 WFPK, and as a result it received frequent airplay on the station itself, as well as the local mainstays of Crescent Hill Radio and ArtxFM WXOX. This momentum led to frequent energetic shows in Louisville, Cincinnati, and Lexington established Maximon as a band with warm stage presence and sustained intensity.

Recording little by little in the wee hours at guitarist Kyle Mann’s studio, they slowly built their debut album, "If Yes Do". The album would be a work of emotional immediacy and range that teams with a newfound confidence in its songwriting and production. As often as the songs display sharp wit, dark humor, and biting irony, they convey sincere expressions of yearning and regret.

The slacker detachment of rockers like "Feels Like I'm Falling" and lead single "Werewolf" call to mind 90s indie stalwarts GBV and Pavement, respectively. The dark landscapes of "In Fields, 1999" and "Evernight" give the album a palpable weight with sonic flashes of Elliot Smith, Bauhaus, and Joy Division. But the dreamy reveries of opener "Colorbridge", a hazy ramble complete with a colorful psychedelic bridge, and closer "Running Scared", a beatific cover of the 1962 Roy Orbison song, bookend the album in light.

"If Yes Do" represents the culmination of well over two years of painstaking work. The results are ambitious yet tuneful and bubbling with an unmistakable energy.

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released February 21, 2017

"If Yes Do" is the debut LP from Maximón, a Louisville based indie band. All songs (excluding "Running Scared") were written, recorded and mixed by Maximón.

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Maximón is a daftly and deftly dreaming pop band from Louisville, KY. Hit us on Facebook, twitter or email us at sharpcruelfangs @ gmail.

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