[Cover photo credit to John Travis]

After working for three years with Producer Tim Sonnefeld, songwriter Max Vanderwolf has released the album Songs You’ll Never Hear. Vanderwolf’s album “integrates strings and horns to give the listener a lush experience despite the destruction around us.” The single and video for “You Can Have It All” are also out now.

Written, rehearsed and recorded in Los Angeles “during the collapse of the global order and the devaluation of American democracy”, Songs You’ll Never Hear portrays a self-destructive world.

On the final mixing session of Songs You’ll Never Hear, Vanderwolf’s vision became blurry. Following an MRI, he discovered he had a 5 centimeter brain tumour. He is currently receiving treatment in San Francisco and is determined to return to the studio to complete a fourth album he has started.

Along with his career as a composer and performer, Vanderwolf, under his birth name Glenn Max, has had a career as a curator, programming festivals and booking artists like David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Davie Byrne, Kraftwerk, Patti Smith, Beck, Stephen Malkmus, Massive Attack, Jarvis Cocker, Kim Gordon at places like the Meltdown Festival at Royal Festival Hall and Village Underground in the UK, Knitting Factory in New York, and most recently at the Skirball Center in his new hometown of Los Angeles.