Suego Faults ~ CD ~ Wolf Gang

To help fully realise his grandiose dreams on his debut album Suego Faults, Max McElligott aka Wolf Gang enlisted the help of Dave Fridmann, producer of Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev and MGMT and a man eminently capable of creating cosmic pop symphonies in his Tarbox Studios in upstate New York. “It’s quite a large sound,” considers Max. “There’s a gloriousness to the production, and a certain ambition.” McElligott and Fridmann arrived at that sound the hard way: Max recorded the songs in his bedroom, singing and playing all the parts himself. He then took those prototype versions to Tarbox, where he and Fridmann worked up the finished versions together. Suego Faults is a magnificent collection of accessible, experimental pop. It is superb songcraft, dexterous musicianship, and florid but not over-fussy production, for a suite of songs about unrequited love and postapocalyptic paranoia. His love for older music – particularly Elton John and David Bowie – is complimented by some more modern day influences he has such as Grizzly Bear and Arcade Fire – all this combined makes for one very interesting man whose love for music clearly runs very deep and goes beyond just writing great jams