Praise Animal Max Pope

• 1 Love Someone Self Destruct 03:59
• 2 Home 03:55
• 3 borderline 03:25
• 4 One Foot In Front Of The Other 04:02
• 5 Right or Wrong 04:13
• 6 I Keep Hoping 03:47
• 7 Best of Me 03:59
• 8 Love Is Dead 04:00
• Total Runtime 31:20

Info for Praise Animal

Praise Animal is the confident sophomore album from South London artist and songwriter Max Pope. Where his acclaimed debut Counting Sheep offered a smooth, soulful introduction, Praise Animal steps deeper into raw, unfiltered territory - a guitar-driven, psychedelic pop record that explores the wilder, more instinctive sides of human nature. The animal that lives inside us all - primal, fragile, sometimes self-destructive, sometimes searching for love and belonging.

The album’s title reflects both this inner conflict and society’s hunger for external validation. Across its eight tracks, Max explores cycles of ego, vulnerability, self-sabotage, inherited patterns, and the tension between instinct and morality. It’s deeply personal but universally human - unpicking the messy emotions we often avoid. His signature guitar work and distinct vocals ground every track, blending jagged blues, woozy electronica, 80s synths, soulful grooves and cinematic textures.

Written and co-produced with Riley Macintyre (Arlo Parks, Glass Animals) and recorded at The Church Studios in London, Praise Animal marks Max’s most fully realised creative work to date. While previous projects saw Max collaborate as a writer and guitarist with artists like Mahalia, Yussef Dayes, and Tom Misch, this record is entirely his own voice and vision.

Max Pope

Max Pope
Born in Crystal Palace in 1995, Max moved to Brighton aged five and following his parents’ separation much of his youth was spent travelling between his parent’s homes on the coast and his nan in South East London.

A constant in his world of uncertainty was music. In part, this was thanks to his music obsessive father, who would expose him to an abundance of genres whenever he visited. Max soon developed an insatiable musical appetite of his own. The urgent poetry of Gil Scott-Heron resonated, as did Nick Drake’s intricate folk and the Beatles’ pristine pop. Bill Withers, Graham Coxon, Donny Hathaway and Jimi Hendrix also hit home. Max’s musical church has always been startlingly broad, counting funk, bossa nova, blues, jazz and rock and roll amongst its number and explains why many of these styles surface in his own material.

Max’s half-Arabic half-Austrian mother always encouraged her son to embrace his emotions. She believes in passion before anything else. She follows her heart all the time. The music she played at home when Max was a kid was always quite moving: Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder… “The soul aspect of my music is from her as a person and not just the music she played. That has massively influenced the sound of my music.”

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