Elbows

Elbows, AKA Max Schieble, is a Bay Area-born, Los Angeles-based songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as visual artist. In 2021, he released his long-awaited debut album, ‘Tales From The Old Mill,’ a project that explores the concept of “home” as a physical place, a memory, and a desire through a warbling concoction of psychedelic pop, jazz, hip hop, funk and electronic. He chronicles his return to the Bay Area through tales of missing parents, debauchery in the upper middle class, and a fateful train trip up north. Musical styles swerve between songs, as a 70’s funk groove gives way to a leering 808-filled beat, which leads to a dusty bossa nova loop, while maintaining a unified atmosphere across the record, at once both spooky and whimsical.

His work has received praise from various publications, including Bandcamp Weekly, IMPOSE Magazine and Okayplayer and has appeared with Grammy Award winner Natalia Lafourcade, Nick Hakim, BENEE, L’Rain, Madison Mcferrin, and others. He has performed throughout the greater east coast and in 2018 made his international debut at Festival OFF de Quebec in Quebec City, Canada.