Description
Label Review.
2019 album also available on Vinyl.
Our Overview.
‘Modern World’ is the second album from 26-year-old Iowa, Des Moines native - now Paris based musician - Max Jury, set for release by Marathon Artists. With a name that would not be out of place in a fictional novel or action, flick Max Jury is capable of writing a winning collection of songs with a lot of heart and swagger that defies his young age. Jury, who also plays piano and guitar, grew up listening to all sorts of music, including country, soul, gospel and rock ‘n’ roll, with a love of great American songwriting from the likes of Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons & Paul Simon are some of the influences helped him hone and craft his own skill.
The follow up to 2016’s critically acclaimed, self-titled debut, ‘Modern World’ is a graceful, sophisticated and truly contemporary body of work, brimming with Jury’s vast and eclectic range of influences. It is an album about life, friendship and facing each day with a renewed clarity.
"The story of my upcoming album, to me, is not necessarily a conceptual one but really one about the music itself. If my first album was an interpretation of the various musical stylings of pop music in the 1960s and 70s, then this record is my interpretation of pop music today. I see this song as kind of the mission statement," states Max Jury.
Having written over 100 songs during the album's year-and-a-half long recording process, Jury believes the ten that finally made the cut describe not just how his own life has changed and evolved since his debut, but also how many of us are currently feeling, living through these strange and confusing times.
Produced by four time Grammy nominated Robin Hannibal (Kendrick Lamar, The Internet, Jessie Ware, Anderson .Paak), the album is steeped in soul and jazz influences and was recorded at The Ship studio in Eagle Rock. It also features a hand-picked band of LA's most talented session musicians: guitarist Joel Van Dijk, drummer Bill Campbell and bassist Thomas Drayton, the son of Motown legend Clay Drayton and the musical director for Childish Gambino. "I've never worked with a bass player like him," says Jury, "he just knew what to play instantly."