IMPOSSIBLE SUM

For Max, Impossible Sum-his first proper solo?record-is an honest-to-God effort to wrangle heartfelt?and sometimes confusing feelings of adjustment,?displacement, and settling into song. These songs have?the kind of heart-on-the-sleeve vulnerability that fans of?his other bands have come to admire, but presented in a?completely unaltered fashion, existing exactly as they?need to be. When I'm in the mode of writing for a band,?everything gets altered through a particular lens or?genre, or I present certain ideas that I know will play?well with special band members, Max tells me. So I?really tried hard to throw that kind of thinking out for?the sake of making something different.?And Impossible Sum really is different than anything?Max has done before. It's a departure from his emo and?pop-punk roots; a collection of songs that exist outside?of genre, as if he were contributing to the Great American?Songbook. Songs like Born At the End of the Year,?Going to My Brother's House, and Pull the Stars Down?certainly have an Americana twang to them (especially?with the presence of Magnolia Electric Co.'s Mike?Slo-Mo Brenner on pedal steel), while Water Tower?and Never Ending Equals Sign sound like the best?songs The Weakerthans never wrote. And you can hear?other classic influences elsewhere on the album-a?dash of Neil Young and Crazy Horse here, some of Tom?Petty's cosmic chooglin' there. But for Max, Impossible?Sum is, in essence, a rediscovery and reconnection with?the roots of songwriting.??Tracklist: 1. Always Almost 2. Water Tower 3. Light Later Lately 4. Shiny Things 5. Left In The Living Room 6. Born At The End Of A Year 7. Pull The Stars Down 8. Flyover Town 9. Never Ending Equals Sign 10. Going to My Brother's House 11. Warm In Your Car