Melbourne singer-songwriter Maxon puts it all on the table with debut album Talking With Strangers, out now.
Maxon has released her debut album Talking With Strangers today, a deeply personal full-length that’s been a long time coming.
Traversing heartbreak, longing, healing, rage and radical honesty, Talking With Strangers finds Maxon unlearning a lifetime of hiding her softness, her queerness, her age, and putting it all on the table.
As much a coming out story as a musical one, the album features earlier singles Everybody, Tangerine Dream, 18 and Little Blue.
Maxon – album launch
- When: 7 May
- Where: The Toff, Melbourne VIC
- Tickets here
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Talking With Strangers moves through a broad emotional landscape across its tracklist, from the americana warmth of opener Strangers through to the jaunty Yabadaba, the angsty Some Days, hazy self-love of Best Shot, and the country-pop defiance of Rebel.
Little Blue sits at the softer end of things, a folk-pop ode to family and quiet in-between moments, produced by Jono Steer and featuring Pamela Zaharias on drums, Ezekiel Fenn on bass and keys, pedal steel from Matt Dixon, and harmonies from Nay Pattuwage. It wraps up with Circles, a stripped-back piano and voice closer that leaves plenty of room to breathe.
Maxon is no newcomer to the scene despite this being her debut album. A two-time recipient of the Mornington Peninsula Development Arts Grant, winner of the Green Wedge Songwriting Comp and a City of Melbourne Grant recipient, she’s shared stages with Tones and I, Ella Hooper and Alex Lahey, and played festivals including St Kilda Festival and Melbourne Fringe.
Talking With Strangers is out now, with a debut album launch show at The Toff in Melbourne on 7 May.
The album is supported by Mornington Peninsula Arts & Culture, Creative Victoria Music Works and the City of Melbourne.
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