Max McNown is giving followers much more of his soul-baring sound. The 23-year-old singer-songwriter has launched the deluxe version of his sophomore album, Evening Diving (The Price of Rising Up), that includes 11 new tracks that chronicle themes of grief, therapeutic, younger love and self-discovery.
Discover
Discover
See entertainment industry movies, charts and information
See entertainment industry movies, charts and information
The expanded set, out now through Fugitive Recordings x The Orchard x Columbia Data, arrives as McNown continues a meteoric rise within the country-folk area. Led by the main target monitor “Endlessly Ain’t Lengthy Sufficient,” the deluxe album additionally features a new model of “Evening Diving” that includes nation artist Cameron Whitcomb.
Releasing the one “Higher Me For You (Brown Eyes)” final November, McKnown not too long ago advised Billboard that he felt reluctant to share such a susceptible single about his girlfriend of almost two years. However the monitor shortly resonated with followers, turning into his first entry on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart and the Billboard Hot 100 — and shortly, the 23-year-old’s perspective modified.
“I wasn’t anticipating a track that’s so particularly about my girlfriend to take action properly,” he displays. “It provides me quite a lot of encouragement to maintain writing private songs about my life.”
McNown wrote “Higher Me For You” in Might 2024 throughout a session with Trent Dabbs, Ava Suppelsa and writer-producer Jamie Kenney, on the lattermost’s Nashville-area studio. On the time, McNown had a fundamental melody, a easy idea and the written phrase, “I didn’t know you’d have brown eyes,” which grew to become central to the track’s refrain.
Produced by Jamie Kenney (Colbie Caillat, Laci Kaye Sales space), the brand new tracks broaden McNown’s signature mix of folks, nation and indie pop, with earthy tones and introspective lyrics impressed by his Pacific Northwest upbringing. Tracks like “Similar Questions” and “St. Helen’s Alpenglow” discover heartbreak and reflection, whereas “The Price of Rising Up” gives a melancholic meditation on life’s challenges.
The Nashville-based artist will convey his new music to levels throughout North America on the Endlessly Ain’t Lengthy Sufficient tour, kicking off Aug. 21 in Kansas Metropolis. He’s additionally set to carry out at Lollapalooza on Aug. 2.