The tumultuous tornado of Max Baby’s “I Can Do Anything”

Taking this creative drive that has spanned instruments, influences, and collaborators, and pouring it into his own solo music, Max Baby has come alive. A sound baked in tumult, electronic euphoria, and stark thrashes between the conventional goalposts of genre, the only consistent feature of his music is its cinematic quality.

Latest entry “I Can Do Anything” details the empty spiral into insanity at the end of a relationship. “Stuck in a loop,” the track opens in robotic drawl, before presenting the most intoxicating alt-rock refrain that continues to unwind as the instrumental progresses, “You’re a legend, I’m the ghost / I’m the virus, you’re the host / I’m not lost, I’m just walking… I can do anything but forget about you.”

“It is a push-pull between shadow and light,” Max Baby shares. “A raw song about the inability to let go, masked by a defiant but hollow sense of empowerment. I was going through the toughest breakup of my life when I wrote it. But it’s not just a breakup song, it also questions the relationship I have with myself.”

Like all of his music, the track is heavily guided by his synaesthesia; a full-bodied, textural plight that throttles out of his brain. He continues, “The chorus came first, like an empowering mantra I was repeating to try and lift this weight off my chest. But the more I tried to move on, the more I wondered: can you ever truly get rid of something like that? Or do you just learn to live with it?”

Destined to be in the limelight with Baby his real surname - passed down through three generations via the children of a WWI captain adopted into the family - this Bourges-born star is now ready to go global.