July 30, 2020 For Immediate Release
Cut Worms Announces New Double Album, Nobody Lives Here Anymore, Out October 9th on Jagjaguwar
Watch the Video for New Single, “Sold My Soul,” and Listen to “God Bless The Day”
Photo Credit: Caroline Gohlke
Cut Worms, moniker of Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and multi-disciplined visual artist Max Clarke, announces his new double album, Nobody Lives Here Anymore, out October 9th on Jagjaguwar. Today, he presents two new singles - “Sold My Soul” with an accompanying video and “God Bless The Day.” Nobody Lives Here Anymore is the haunted reverie of an American landscape in-and-out of Max’s mind. Recorded between May and November 2019 in Memphis, Tennessee, the album is a snow globe of the mid-twentieth-century’s popular music filled with jangling guitars, honkey tonk pianos, and Telstar organs.
Max immediately started writing material for his sophomore LP after an extensive eighteen-months of touring in support of 2017’s Alien Sunset and 2018’s Hollow Ground. Mining his life-long devotion to the lost American songbook for inspiration, he stockpiled nearly thirty new songs by the time he flew to Memphis to work with producer Matt Ross-Spang at Sam Phillips Recording Studio. Unlike earlier works that were meticulously demoed, Max opted for rough drafts to capture something more immediate and honest. Most of the initial takes were tracked live with Noah Bond on drums, while Max sang and played rhythm guitar. Max then built lush arrangements around these intimate performances. A skeleton crew of friends and Memphis all-stars were called in to lay down pedal steel, sax, and strings. When all was said and done, they had recorded 17 new cosmic Americana gems.
“Sold My Soul” and “God Bless The Day” follow previously released singles “Unnatural Disaster,” “Baby Come On,” and “Castle in the Clouds.” “Sold My Soul” takes a look back and ahead at the choices we make, with a thinly veiled punchline to soften the blow. Over jaunty guitar, Max’s voice is expressive as he sings “I sold my soul somewhere so long ago // Oh I didn’t think too much at the time I was young and I didn’t know // oh till I saw it late one night on the antique road show // expert collectors to appraise.” The accompanying video, directed and shot by Caroline Gohlke on Route 66 from Chicago to Oklahoma, captures the aura of stumbling through a deserted time.
Max sees this record as a figurative shot across the bow to the modern attention span. He says Nobody Lives Here Anymore is about “throwaway consumer culture and how the postwar commercial wet dreams never came true, how nothing is made to last.” He considers the golden years of a society on its last leg with poignant curiosity, suggesting not only that nobody lives the American dream, but that nobody lives here, in this moment, anymore. “It’s about homesickness for childhood, for a place that never really existed,” says Max.
A loss of innocence lingers through this 80-minute opus as Max attempts to harbor love and meaning inside a world that sold itself out. While his grand anthems overflow with timeless pop charm, his ability to dig deeper than lollipops and holding hands sets his work apart from the days of 45s and Top of the Pops.
Watch Cut Worm’s Video for “Sold My Soul”
Stream “God Bless The Day”
Stream/Purchase “Unnatural Disaster”
Stream/Purchase “Baby Come On”
Watch “Castle in the Clouds” Video
Pre-order Nobody Lives Here Anymore
Nobody Lives Here Anymore Tracklist 1. The Heat Is On 2. Unnatural Disaster 3. Last Words To A Refugee 4. All The Roads 5. Every Once In A While 6. Looks Like Rain 7. A Love So Fine 8. Veteran’s Day 9. Sold My Soul 10. Castle In The Clouds 11. Baby Come On 12. Walk With Me 13. Won’t Get It Right 14. Always On My Mind 15. The Golden Sky 16. God Bless The Day 17. Cave of Phantoms
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