{"id":72368,"date":"2026-09-09T16:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/max-richter-announces-new-album-while-the-flood-rages\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:04:35","slug":"max-richter-announces-new-album-while-the-flood-rages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/max-richter-announces-new-album-while-the-flood-rages\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Richter Announces New Album While the Flood Rages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The German composer <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/3641-max-richter\/\">Max Richter<\/a> has a new album on the way. <em>While the Flood Rages<\/em> arrives October 16 and features 15 tracks taken from his score of <em>MaddAddam<\/em>, a ballet inspired by a trilogy of post-apocalyptic Margaret Atwood novels. The standalone album deals with themes of technological acceleration, ecological crisis, and human connection. The full tracklist isn\u2019t available yet, but you can listen to the reflective first single, \u201cNow We Can Sing,\u201d below.<\/p>\n<p><em>MaddAddam<\/em> marks Richter\u2019s third collaboration with choreographer Wayne McGregor, following 2017\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/22783-three-worlds-music-from-woolf-works\/\">Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works<\/a>,<\/em> and 2010\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/14452-infra\/\"><em>Infra<\/em><\/a>. More recently, Richter has stayed busy working on his solo catalog, with 2024\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/max-richter-in-a-landscape\/\"><em>In a Landscape<\/em><\/a> and 2022\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/max-richter-the-new-four-seasons-vivaldi-recomposed\/\">The New Four Seasons &#8211; Vivaldi Recomposed<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more about Richter\u2019s <em>Sleep<\/em> in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/lists-and-guides\/9948-the-50-best-ambient-albums-of-all-time\/\">The 50 Best Ambient Albums of All Time<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure data-testid=\"IframeEmbed\" class=\"IframeEmbedWrapper-sc-fixZhC fJBrNq iframe-embed\"\/>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-iJvQnD cOWUYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-fnduJP iaVSwI asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-kFnjvc eKnjjD responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-jKunQM gjCCFj AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-gaAbQ hXaxHA asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/max-richter-announces-new-album-while-the-flood-rages\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German composer Max Richter has a new album on the way. While the Flood Rages arrives October 16 and features 15 tracks taken&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-72368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin","tag-alt","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}