The Madison musician's debut album, "The Blue Moon Goon," came out on August 20.
Photo by Joseph Tucci.
Max Elliott has cultivated an unhinged, voice-cracking approach to rockabilly over the past decade, both in his acoustic solo performances under the name Mad Max Elliott and as vocalist/guitarist for Madison band The Lonesome Savages. By comparison, his debut album as Mad Max Elliott, The Blue Moon Goon, dials it back a bit. Released on August 20, the album expands on the intersection of romance and menace Elliott has been working all along, enriching his songs with crackly arrangements and balancing Elliott's earlier tormented-wolfman persona with tenderness and humor.
"I think of [Mad Max] as less a character than what I did in the Lonesome Savages—still a little bit of a character though," Elliott says. "But for this it's mainly just me. I'm weird and I like morbid/gross/absurd stuff, so that's what's in the songs, but I don't play it up as much as with Lonesome Savages. For that I tried to be a sleazy werewolf or something...aggressive and scary, but I don't feel comfortable doing the sleaze shtick anymore."
On songs like "I Tell You Why," "Pictures Of You," and "The Creep," Elliott busts his rockabilly influences down to a corroded chassis of guitar, vocals, kick drum, and hi-hat. Joseph Tucci and former Madison musician Dead Luke add a few embellishments—lap steel, baritone guitar, organ, snare drum—that manage to sound both warmly present and as if they're leaking off of an old 45 that's been slowly melting over the decades.
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