Cabin Songs by Max S. Porter

When the pandemic lockdowns hit I picked up my phone, guitar and some random other instruments and locked myself away in a cabin for a few days.

In this weird and rare downtime, where we were all forced to reflect and go inwards, I asked myself what was holding me back from just releasing my music. Its easy to come up with excuses; you can be waiting for the stars to align, waiting to afford proper studio time, waiting for a band, waiting to afford to release vinyl, doubting whether people would care in the first place…

I realised it was time to just put the doubt and excuses aside and just get some of my songs out there into the world. I’ve been writing fairly consistently over the past decade, occasionally gigging, but never releasing anything. So, here is my debut: ‘Cabin Songs’.

Recorded in the second week of lockdowns, these songs were recorded quickly using just Garageband on my iPhone. They are raw recordings. You can hear the cabin, you can hear the crickets and frogs and rain and wind and trees, you can hear the creak of the chair. It makes sense to me.

Some of the songs like ‘River Faustian’ and ‘The Thief’ were written years ago, but most of them were written in the same week they were recorded. They capture a time, a space, a vibe...

Max S. Porter,
June 2020

songwriter
singer
dark ambient folk
lofi
sydney australia