Max Avoidance is the electronic pop project of producer Hari Limaye. For many years, Limaye lived a double life: a gifted child who started medical school, whilst moonlighting as a score composer to the high fashion industry, before personal trials led to the whole thing falling apart. Hari has undergone a journey of healing underpinned by resilience. He has since spent years honing his sonic craft, deriving inspiration from adverse lived experience. 

Hari comments on ‘Alone’:
“Being alone isn’t the same as being lonely, being centered in oneself isn’t the same as being self-centered.”
“I used to love playing my parents’ record collection – The Cure, Magazine, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees – I wanted to write something that was a homage to them with a 21st century take on those sounds and out came Alone”  

‘Lightyear‘ is a sweeping psychedelic reflection on the growing distance between friends and lovers.
Hari had this to say about the song:
“What if distance was a feeling? It would feel like Lightyear.”
“We are all memories across space and time, and like everything in the universe, we will return to cosmic dust and regenerate in a timeless cycle.”

Both songs were recorded at his family home in Wales on the storm-swept Gower coast and then finished in his home studio in London:
“I was holed up in a house with no heating in the depths of winter with my friend Christian (OC Saint) in the middle of a storm. The fuses for the lights had blown but we still had power. In the shadows of candlelight, the noises swirling and crashing around outside made it feel like the ghosts of iron-age village ancestors were encircling us. I think you can hear some of that in the songs”

His upcoming EP, featuring ‘Alone’, ‘Lightyear’ and ‘Poison’, is the sound of Hari emerging through the turmoil and flourishing from out of the ashes. This project – psychedelic and glitchy, dark and hopeful – is called Max Avoidance. 

Composing soundtracks for haute couture campaigns by fashion houses such as Hermes, Calvin Klein and Coach, scoring projects for Kendall Jenner. Producing electronic, rap and gothic music since his early teenage years while compiling a collection of songs worthy of sharing with a wider audience, Max Avoidance is releasing his debut EP in early 2026 – a woozy concoction of atmospheric darkwave, experimental electronic and dream pop.

“’Alone‘ by Max Avoidance (brainchild of London based Hari Limaye), is an ‘80s synthwave homage at its best; one simple, ASCII-punctuated melody and repetitive, dreamlike vocals.” – The Indie Scene

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