HEY! LISTEN: Max Garcia Conover — “world war 3’s gonna be so dumb”

Whenever I see a new song from Max Garcia Conover, I get super excited. His music has a wonderful, consistent, insistent pulse with lyrics that are a rapid-fire wellspring of truth. On “world war 3,” Conover is struggling for answers that he’s still figuring out how to ask. He wrestles with the promises that were made to us when we were younger, but we know that almost all of them have broken for almost all of us. This is an important song, especially in the midst of our Pandemic-versary, where everything seems to be uncertain.

Max grew up in Bemus Point, New York and started writing songs in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He releases music both independently and through the Barcelona-based label Son Canciones. He’s toured North America & Europe, sharing the stage with Cat Power, Justin Townes Earle, The Weather Station and many others. In between songs he tells stories, and his storytelling has been featured on The Moth Radio Hour and Stories From The Stage.

“This is a simple folk song recorded live into one mic. It started with the title line, which was a placeholder that I just kept coming back to. I wrote many verses that didn’t make it into this version, not because they weren’t as good or something like that, but just because they weren’t what I felt like singing the day i happened to record this take. I feel like I have a lot to say about this current moment in time and none of it is in the song – what is in there is sort of an uncovering of a persistent state of mind that I was hoping to understand better.

Max Garcia Conover — Official