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The son of both a violinist and a historian, as well as a former business student, Wolf Gang may not be your average rocker. His music has been described as being eccentric and unprocessed, making him one of the freshest acts to look out for.

Max McElligott, also known as Wolf Gang, didn't always envision pursuing a career in music. He grew up the son of both a violinist and historian, and was attending the well-respected London School of Economics. Shortly after, McElligott did the unthinkable and dropped out of LSE to sign with Neon Gold as a recording artist. While people thought that was a risky move, McElligott shares…. “Mick Jagger dropped out of LSE and it worked for him so I’m taking my chances”.

Wolf Gang's debut track, "Pieces of you" showed promise, but it wasn't really until releasing his single, "The King and All of his Men" with new label, Hit Club Records, where people really begun to take notice. Wolf Gang's sound is full of melodic rock and larger than life melodies all of which can be found in his second single. The track boasts heavy synths and bumping beats and at the same tells a story with his profound lyrics, worthy of analysis. Though Wolf Gang's music may sound pop, trying to categorize into one genre would be both unfair and difficult.
In talking about genre classifications, Wolf Gang shares, "genres and stuff like that is never something I have thought much about, and I’m not really interested in defining my sound. I just literally write songs and see how they come out, so how people then pigeon hole them I suppose isn’t really my concern; but yeah it seems to be that I write songs with relatively poppy choruses so it does fall into that bracket, I just never intend for that to be the case".

"The King and All of his Men"

 In contrast to the uber poppy "The King and all of his Men", Wolf Gang's newest reported demo, "Back to Back" takes his sound into a different direction. The latest single is a takes a more moody approach, somewhat comparable to The xx. "Back to Back" isn't necessarily a song that makes you want to skip around like previous songs have, but rather a song you want to play on full blast while driving on the Pacific Coast High Way.

"Back to Back"

Listening to Wolf Gang's music, it's quite clear he isn't afraid to experiment with his sound, making all the more difficult to anticipate what his album would sound like.There's no confirmed date of an album release, but we expect nothing but great things for the talented Brit.
 

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Sources:Converse Music, 4therecord

Photo credit: Wolf Gang

 

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