“Holding Pattern” - Max Macready
Credit: Copyright Max Macready 2025
“Holding Pattern” feels like a message intercepted from another dimension — a neon-lit fever dream where longing meets circuitry, and emotion hums beneath the static. Max Macready’s latest transmission, with Kurt Precinct handling vocals and guitar, is a slow-burn synthwave vignette that pulses with both retro heart and future tension.
Macready’s production is pure retro-futurist elegance. Analogue synths glide and shimmer like neon reflections on wet asphalt, while the bassline throbs with a mechanical heartbeat — steady, restrained, but emotional in its repetition. Kurt Precinct’s vocal delivery floats between weary confession and celestial transmission.
There’s a cinematic quality throughout — something between Drive’s nocturnal cool and Blade Runner’s romantic decay. But “Holding Pattern” doesn’t just mimic that world; it extends it.
You can almost see the song flickering on a forgotten screen, looping endlessly in a satellite broadcast from a world that no longer exists.
Macready and Precinct have always thrived in duality — organic vs. synthetic, past vs. future, heart vs. machine — and this track might be their most balanced fusion yet. It’s danceable but melancholic, sleek yet tender. It speaks to the ache of digital connection in a disconnected age — where the signals are clear, but no one dares to hit “send.”
As with all of Max Macready’s work, there’s a touch of narrative world-building here too. You can hear the Diegesis Transmissions mythos unfolding — the idea of songs as lost broadcasts, drifting through deep space, waiting to be rediscovered.
“Holding Pattern” feels like one of those signals. City lights flickering outside your window — half dreaming, half remembering someone who never quite said what you both already knew.
“Holding Pattern” is available now on all major streaming platforms
Credit: Copyright Max Macready 2025
