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# With applied communications

## Record

### With applied communications

**Summary.** Solo alias of Max Wood (Washington, D.C.), lo-fi / anti-rock art-pop built from discordant vocals, found sounds, and deconstructed gestures. Luke Francis Walton mixed the 2024 comeback EP Has a Midlife Crisis, subsequent singles, and the 2026 LP applied communications bites the big one; Riley Knapp mastered. Bandcamp Daily named that LP its Album of the Day on September 25, 2026. The selection is the album’s. Uhhh Sort Of (2005) was teen outsider-pop that Pitchfork put on its 15 worst releases of 2005 list; Has a Midlife Crisis (2024), billed as 17 years in the making, is beat-driven alt-pop.

Solo alias of Max Wood (Washington, D.C.), lo-fi / anti-rock art-pop built from discordant vocals, found sounds, and deconstructed gestures. Luke Francis Walton mixed the 2024 comeback EP Has a Midlife Crisis, subsequent singles, and the 2026 LP applied communications bites the big one; Riley Knapp mastered. Bandcamp Daily named that LP its Album of the Day on September 25, 2026. The selection is the album’s. Uhhh Sort Of (2005) was teen outsider-pop that Pitchfork put on its 15 worst releases of 2005 list; Has a Midlife Crisis (2024), billed as 17 years in the making, is beat-driven alt-pop. Collaborator hub for Luke F. Walton and Scoobert Doobert credits with applied communications. Status on site: complete. Also credited as: Max Wood. Early run: Africa Baby, Yeah Yeah Yeah (2004) and Uhhh Sort Of (2005), basement-pop computer collage. Pitchfork called Uhhh Sort Of emotionally exposed but famously hostile; it landed on the 15 worst releases of 2005 list. Comeback: Applied Communications Has a Midlife Crisis (Apr 2024), billed as 17 years in the making, more accessible, beat-driven alt-pop while keeping the idiosyncratic core. Chorus.fm: off-kilter pop with Casio, drum machines, random electronic elements, discordant melodies and key changes. Bandcamp tagline: noisy screamy mostly electronic pop music. 2026 LP: applied communications bites the big one (September 25, 2026), nine tracks. Bandcamp Daily named it Album of the Day the day it came out (Luke Jackson). The review is about the album and does not name Walton. Wood’s release post names Scoobert Doobert mixing engineer and Riley Knapp mastering engineer, and calls it his first new LP in about 20 years. Walton’s role is mix only, not produce. Mixing credit runs from the 2024 EP through later singles and the 2026 LP. Shazam lists lobsteriscos rocketiza with Max Wood vocalist/songwriter, Scoobert Doobert mixing engineer, Riley Knapp mastering. Mixed: applied communications bites the big one (LP · Sep 2026 · 9 tracks · mixed by Luke Francis Walton · Bandcamp Daily Album of the Day, Sep 25, 2026); cowboy bebop & eric's trip (Track 5 on the LP · May 2026 single · Bandcamp mix credit); applied communications has a midlife crisis (EP · Apr 2024 · V13 17-year comeback · mixed by Luke Francis Walton); oxytocin drunk (EP lead single); tomboy femme (EP · identity / self-discovery); sinéad (EP closer · Emperor X edits); crying in k-mart (EP); subcision scars (EP); playing plinko (2026 single); exterminata beat (playing plinko B-side); it bothers me it bothers you i snore (2025 single); boyfie sale (2025 single); echo boom (2025 single); awesome fantasies (2025 single); lobsteriscos rocketiza (2025 single · Shazam mix/master credits); boxes in the carport (2025 single). Press on applied communications releases: Bandcamp Daily: Album of the Day (Sep 25, 2026), Bandcamp: applied communications bites the big one, Instagram: @appl.comm LP post (mix + master), Spotify: applied communications, Bandcamp: applied communications, V13: Midlife Crisis / mix credit, Chorus.fm: Oxytocin Drunk premiere, Pitchfork: Uhhh Sort Of review, Northern Transmissions, It's Psychedelic Baby, SF Shameless: tomboy femme, Backseat Mafia: Sinéad premiere. Related hubs: Press: mixing credits row.

- Themes: collaborator, applied communications, applied-communications, Max Wood, Mixed
- Record id: with:applied-communications

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