Representing an explosive leap into the full-length format for an artist who previously preferred to work in the miniature, melancholic legend Max Cooper is finally set to release his debut album for regular home label FIELDS. Titled ‘Human’, it comes after a string of releases this year including his beautiful remix of Nils Frahm‘s ‘For’, as well as Part 1 and Part 2 of his ‘Fragmented Self’ EPs. It’s no doubt that Max Cooper is one of the most innovative, ambitious and exploratory producers of today’s heart-warming electronica, and the first single off the record – ‘Adrift’ – which features the smoky vocal soundings of Belleruche’s Kathrin deBoer, pushes some of Max’s most delicate percussion and sound design yet – the tune takes his melancholic style to a whole new territory of starkly elegant beauty.

Earmilk said that Max Cooper’s sounds are “a religious experience” and that he is “a master at blending blissed-out, lightweight textures with moments of heavy darkness”. Nobody can argue with that, and before its official release December 16, you can listen to ‘Adrift’ below. Also check out the tracklisting to the entire album and his European tour dates for the first part of the ‘Human’ tour – FIELDS will release the LP on the 10th of March 2014. Pre-order it here!

‘Human’ Tracklist:
01. Woven Ancestry
02. Adrift feat. Kathrin deBoer
03. Automaton feat. BRAIDS
04. Supine
05. Seething
06. Numb feat. Kathrin deBoer
07. Impacts
08. Empyrean
09. Apparitions
10. Potency
11. Awakening

‘Human’ Tour (Part 1)
20 Dec – Club Lehmann, Stuttgart, Germany
21 Dec – Hinterhof, Basel, Switzerland
31 Dec – Artheater, Cologne, Germany
10 Jan – Break Club, Montpellier, France
25 Jan – Club Kyo, Singapore, Singapore
27 Jan – Rainbow Serpent Festival, Lexton -Victoria, Australia
02 Feb – Sunday Roast | La Machine Du Moulin Rouge, Paris, France
07 Feb – Gare Porto, Porto, Portugal
15 Feb – Roest Warehouse, Amsterdam, Netherlands
27 Feb – DIEP | Poppodium 013, Tilburg, Netherlands
28 Feb – Perron, Rotterdam, Netherlands
01 Mar – Flex, Vienna, Austria
05 Mar – Mistral Club, Aix En Provence, France
08 Mar – KB18, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 Mar – HUMAN RELEASED