Last year, Maxo took a trip that changed his outlook. It was an ayahuasca ritual, which his mother had recommended as a way of unpacking the intergenerational trauma that forms a backdrop to his music ...

Maxo’s music has a strange, hypnagogic ambiance, full of bottom-heavy beats, gaseous samples, and pitch-shifting vocals. There’s a sense that nothing is ever quite settled. Songs seem to fade in and ...

The California rapper takes stock of his life on an introspective album that balances melancholy and bliss over lush, sampled loops and opulent live-band instrumentation. No score yet, be the first to ...