Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is "Cut It Loose" by Maxband, a 2020 single on Maximum Band Recordings.
With his side project Maxband, Max Savage of Parquet Courts steps out from behind the drum kit and grabs a guitar. He shares vocal duties with co-founder and bassist Patrick Smith of A Beacon School. Their first release was a limited-run cassette EP titled Perfect Strangers in 2018, but they reemerged in late 2020 with a new EP titled Top of the Stairs.
Today's featured track follows the Parquet path of lo-fi post-punk. Maxband explained to Under the Radar:
“‘Cut It Loose’ was the first song we wrote for Top of the Stairs, and it functions as a good mission statement for where we are as a band: it was our first fully collaborative effort that was fleshed out from an idea that Patrick brought into a practice space, and the first song where Max and Patrick split vocal duties.”
