Pairs nostalgic musings and bouncy synthesizers while contrasting adult neurosis with sonic whimsy.
Performing in laundromats and laser tag arenas, Max built a small, loyal audience in the early aughts while alienating larger crowds with glitchy, intense, mostly electronic pop songs. Now after nearly two decades away from music, Max's work found unexpected new life when a TikTok influencer sparked an internet archaeology project that pulled the Applied Communications discography back from the dead.
People dug through archive.org and eBay, recovered the music, and launched a fan-site – drawing Max back into making music with two EPs: 2024's applied communications has a midlife crisis and 2025's greatest applied communications music.
Applied Communications new single "return of jafar" pairs nostalgic musings and bouncy synthesizers while contrasting adult neurosis with whimsy sonic details throughout.
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Applied Communications is the musical alias of Max Wood. As a teenager, Max created polarizing, experimental pop music. Pitchfork listed their 2005 album Uhhh Sort Of among the worst of the year, while PopMatters called it "hard to stomach, but even harder to turn away from." Performing in laundromats and laser tag arenas, Max built a small, loyal audience while alienating larger crowds with glitchy, intense, mostly electronic pop songs.
After nearly two decades away from music, Max's work found unexpected new life when a TikTok influencer sparked an internet archaeology project that pulled the Applied Communications discography back from the dead. Fans dug through archive.org and eBay, recovered the music, and launched a fan-site – drawing Max back into making music with two EPs: 2024's applied communications has a midlife crisis and 2025's greatest applied communications music.
The first full-length Applied Communications album in over twenty years
Now, applied communications bites the big one is the first full-length Applied Communications album in over twenty years. It's 25 minutes of bouncy, bratty, beat-driven, sample-heavy noise pop with lyrics focused on excavating and re-contextualizing childhood trauma and insecurities. The new LP lands September 25 via the Rare Noodles imprint in collaboration with Bar/None Records.
New single, "return of jafar," pairs bizarro nostalgic musings and bouncy synthesizers. It contrasts adult neurosis with sonic whimsy.
On the single, Wood shares: "In 1998, as a 12-year-old, I spent a weekend with my uncle's very eccentric, mysteriously wealthy, much older girlfriend. Just me and her. We watched the Olympics, ate ice cream, made an eBay page, and she somehow had a literal star named after me. I had free rein in the pool house and play house. The play house had ska-friendly checkered floors and 'this is your brain on drugs' posters on the walls. The pool house had a water bed.
Making this record, I found myself meditating on a bunch of oddball childhood memories, and then drawing connections to all the problems and neuroses that drag me down today. (As well as all the weirdness and wonder that lifts me up!) Along those lines, this track connects the alienation I feel around younger people today with the alienation I used to feel among older people – over a bed of 909 bossa nova beats, pitch-bent flutes, and warped saxophones."
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