Inside Max Allais’ Debut EP ‘Anywhere & Everywhere’
Singer-songwriter Max Allais is stepping into a defining moment with Anywhere & Everywhere, a debut EP that feels like his strongest statement so far. Released on March 27, the six-track project brings together “Wherever You Go,” “Everywhere,” “Close To You,” “Gave It All Away,” “What I Gotta Do,” and “Anywhere But Home,” offering a fuller sense of the acoustic-pop sound he has been steadily shaping over the past year.
The release also arrives at a notable point in Allais’ career. As one of the first artists signed to real thing records, launched through a partnership between Coca-Cola and Universal Music Group in 2025, he has only continued building momentum as his music reaches far beyond the short-form content that first introduced him to a wider audience. That growth is extremely visible across various platforms too, with more than 800K followers on Instagram, 51.1K subscribers on YouTube, and over 300K monthly listeners on Spotify.
Still, the real pull of Anywhere & Everywhere has less to do with numbers than with the songwriting itself. Across the EP, Allais stays emotionally direct without overplaying his hand, moving through reflection, heartbreak, intimacy, and the uncertainty that comes with trying to understand yourself while holding tightly to the people and moments that matter. And “Close To You” captures that especially well, built around the impulse to stop time when something feels too meaningful to lose.
That emotional clarity is ultimately what gives Anywhere & Everywhere its distinct shape. Rather than simply collecting songs from an early stage of his career, the EP creates a clear throughline between them, offering a stronger sense of both his sound and the perspective behind it.
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Anywhere & Everywhere is your first EP, and it feels like a real step forward from releasing singles one at a time. When did you realize these songs belonged together as one project?
Max Allais: I wasn’t initially trying to make a “project”—I was just writing through different moments in my life over the past couple years. But after a while, I noticed the same emotional thread running through everything: this push and pull between wanting to hold onto something and knowing you can’t. Once I put the songs next to each other, it felt less like a collection and more like a conversation I’d been having with myself over the past couple years while writing these songs. That’s when it clicked that they belonged together.
“Close To You” has such a warm, intimate core to it. What was it about that song that made it feel like the right focus as this EP came out?
Max Allais: “Close To You” felt like the emotional centre of the EP. It’s one of the most honest things I’ve written, and there’s not much hiding in it. The verses I feel like are really personal, and the song really captures that feeling of being completely present with someone, but also aware of how fragile that moment is. I think it sets the tone for everything else, because it holds both comfort and tension at the same time, which is really what the whole project is about.
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So much of this EP circles closeness, distance, and the fear of losing a moment or a person. Why did those ideas feel important for you to write about at this stage in your life?
Max Allais: I think I’ve just been going through a time where nothing feels super permanent. People come in and out of your life. I found many relationships over the last year changing quite fast, and I don’t always get to control that. So I guess I was just trying to make sense of it while it was happening. Writing about it helped me hold onto those feelings a bit longer.
Considering that this EP is also described as a coming-of-age record–what parts of growing up, or even figuring yourself out in real time, were you most interested in capturing here?
Max Allais: For me, it’s the messy parts. Not really knowing what you’re doing, second-guessing yourself, learning things the hard way. I didn’t want it to feel like a clean, perfect version of growing up, because that’s not how it’s been for me. It’s more about being in the middle of everything and just trying to understand it as you go.
When you were finally able to hear these songs side by side, what started to reveal itself about the project as a whole?
Max Allais: I think I realized how much of it is about change. Even when I didn’t mean for it to be. There are obviously a few songs about love/relationships and my experience with it. However, I feel like there was this feeling of moving on, or things slipping away, or not really knowing where you stand. Hearing it all together made it feel more emotional than I expected, to be honest.
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Putting together your first full body of work is different from releasing songs one by one. Did making Anywhere & Everywhere change the way you want to approach music going forward?
Max Allais: Definitely. It made me appreciate the bigger picture a lot more—how songs can speak to each other and build something deeper together. Moving forward, I still want each song to stand on its own, but I’m really drawn to the idea of creating worlds, not just moments. This project showed me how powerful that can be.
Now that Anywhere & Everywhere is out in the world, what do you hope people understand about you as an artist after hearing the whole project?
Max Allais: I hope people and my fans feel something real when they listen to it. More than anything, I want them to see that I’m not trying to have all the answers—I’m just documenting what it feels like to be in the middle of it all. If someone hears these songs and feels a little less alone in whatever they’re going through, that means everything to me.
